But increasing the number of visas alone won’t solve the problem if corporate giants stay the course. If you look at the top companies sponsoring H-1B visas in 2023, it’s a virtual who’s who of Big Tech. According to the Economic Policy Institute, Meta employs so many H-1B workers that it has declared itself an “H-1B dependent” firm in government filings for years because more than 15% of its total U.S. workforce is H-1B workers.
CalMatters
January 12, 2024
According to the Economic Policy Institute, Florida is the 16th state so far where legislation has been proposed over the past two years to ease child labor restrictions, even though violations of child labor law have been on the rise.
Orlando Weekly
January 12, 2024
While 24 states have adopted the CROWN Act, Republican senators have successfully blocked the anti-discrimination bill’s passing on a federal level twice since its introduction in 2021. According to the Economic Policy Institute, legislators did not bring it before Congress in 2023.
Mother Jones
January 12, 2024
Karakatsanis doesn’t mention wage theft in this passage, but according to data from the Economic Policy Institute, U.S. employers steal as much as $50 billion a year from workers in the form of unpaid wages.
Current Affairs
January 12, 2024
Christian Science Monitor
January 12, 2024
“Many workers are harmed by employer misclassification—particularly those in the lowest-wage and most difficult jobs, such as nail salon workers, truck drivers, and construction workers,” the Economic Policy Institute said in a written statement. A previous EPI report on misclassification estimated thousands of dollars in lost income annually for workers in various job types who are deemed independent contractors instead of employees.
Bloomberg Law
January 12, 2024
About 89% of all employers host compulsory captive audience meetings when their workers try to organize, according to National Labor Relation Board (NLRB) documents. A report by the Economic Policy Institute estimates that those meetings slash election win rates from 73% to 47%.
The Stranger
January 12, 2024
More than ever, teacher pay is at crisis levels, with what this report from the Economic Policy Institute pinpoints as pay existing at “26.4% less than other similarly educated professionals in 2022—the lowest level since 1960.”
Education World
January 12, 2024
Another issue for teachers is low pay: A report from Sylvia Allegretto, a senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research who’s also a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute, found the pay penalty for teachers and comparable college graduates who were working was at a record large gap in 2022 — a pay penalty of 26.4%.
Business Insider
January 12, 2024
Despite the tapering off, 165,000 is not too shabby. According to Elise Gould, the senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, the Q4 monthly average exceeds “what’s necessary to keep up with working age population growth.”
ArcaMax
January 12, 2024