The top 1% of Americans earn over 26 times more than the bottom 99% and hold 21% of the nation’s total income, per the Economic Policy Institute. However, there’s some evidence that inequality has narrowed in recent years due to the strong wage gains of lower-income workers.
Business Insider
December 15, 2023
The federal Wage and Hour Division, in charge of investigating things like wage theft, suffers from “severe understaffing” and currently investigates fewer than 1% of farm employers per year, according to a 2023 report from the Economic Policy Institute.
Carolina Public Press
December 15, 2023
According to an Economic Policy Institute report, CEO compensation has grown by 1,209% since 1978, while the typical worker’s compensation has only ticked up 15%.
Sports Illustrated
December 15, 2023
The effort comes not a moment too soon, as wage theft and labor law violations have notoriously cost California’s minimum-wage earners nearly $2 billion every year, with a study from the Economic Policy Institute highlighting that these violations “exceeds the value of property crimes committed in the United States each year.”
Hoodline
December 15, 2023
The IRA was designed to counter the potential loss of American auto manufacturing jobs during the EV transition. The Washington, D.C.-based Economic Policy Institute warned in 2022 that 75,000 jobs could be lost “if – thanks to policy inaction – the batteries and drivetrains powering the BEVs continue to be produced abroad and U.S. producers make no gains in the share of overall car sales.”
Wards Auto
December 15, 2023
Arbitration clauses in employment agreements have become standard, with more than half of American employees subject to them, compared to 2 percent 30 years ago, according to research from the Economic Policy Institute.
Vanity Fair
December 15, 2023
From 1979 to 2013, hourly pay for middle-wage workers increased 6% and pay for low-wage workers decreased 5%, whereas pay for very high-wage workers increased 41%, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank.
CNET
December 15, 2023
Writing for the Economic Policy Institute in 2020, for instance, education economist Emma García summarized the data: “When black students have the opportunity to attend schools with lower concentrations of poverty and larger shares of white students they perform better, on average, on standardized tests.”
Minnesota Reformer
December 15, 2023
Still, the report said Colorado educators make about 37 percent less compared to other professionals with the same amount of education, citing research by the Economic Policy Institute.
Colorado Public Radio
December 15, 2023
LA Times
December 15, 2023