Teacher salaries are a hot-button issue, with the field experiencing well-documented wage gaps. According to an Economic Policy Institute report, teachers made 26.4% less than other similarly educated professions in 2022 — the lowest level since 1960.
Stacker
January 5, 2024
An Economic Policy Institute report found that, in 2014, 27.1 percent of Black workers in the restaurant industry lived in poverty, compared to 13.9 percent of white restaurant workers.
Popular Information
January 5, 2024
According to the Economic Policy Institute, 48 localities in the U.S. have adopted minimum wages above what their state law requires. But Philadelphia is bound by the state minimum wage.
Philadelphia Inquirer
January 5, 2024
Data from the Economic Policy Institute shows women make up nearly 60 percent of the workers who will get bigger paychecks this year.
Cox Media Group
January 5, 2024
Hawaiʻi is one of 22 states that raised the minimum wage at the start of the new year, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Hawaiʻi saw the largest pay increase of any state, from $12 to $14. It’s part of a multi-year schedule adopted to bring wages up in light of the high cost of living. The state minimum wage will increase to $16 in 2026 and $18 in 2028.
Hawaii Public Radio
January 5, 2024
States are free to set their own minimum wage standards; New York is one of 22 states seeing increases this year according to the Economic Policy Institute.
The Daily Star
January 5, 2024
Nearly 10 million workers got a wage increase that came into effect with the start of the new year. In total, workers will receive $6.95 billion in additional wages from state minimum wage increases, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Sinclair Broadcast Group
January 5, 2024
The increases will bump wages for about 9.9 million workers, according to an analysis from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a Washington-based think tank.
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Even workers in the lower-paid retail industry have seen steadily increasing wages. The average retail wage was $23.86 per hour in November, according to BLS data.
Still, raising the minimum wage can help lock in some of those recent gains for workers across industries, said EPI senior economist Elise Gould.
“It creates a floor that wages can’t fall below,” even if the economy gets weaker in the future, she said.
The Washington Post
January 5, 2024
Six of those states—California, Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Washington—now have a minimum wage that reaches or surpasses $15. The increases should disproportionately benefit Black, Hispanic, and female workers who make up more than half of the workers receiving pay bumps, according to an analysis from the Economic Policy Institute.
Mother Jones
January 5, 2024
More than 20 states rang in the New Year by raising the minimum wage. The highest minimum wages are in the $16 to $17 range.
“And, according to our analysis, that is going to increase wages for almost 10 million workers,” said Sebastian Martinez Hickey, who tracks the minimum wage at the Economic Policy Institute.
He says more than half the workers getting a minimum wage hike are women. About 11% are Black, and more than a third are Hispanic.
Marketplace
January 5, 2024