Maryland and many other states now have laws on the books that
require minimum wages to rise along with inflation. Maryland leaders recognized that the $15 minimum unions and worker advocates campaigned for a decade ago no longer goes far enough, said Sebastian Martinez Hickey, a research assistant for the Economic Analysis and Research Network at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank in Washington, D.C.
“What they thought $15 an hour would achieve no longer has that same
purchasing power,” Hickey said. “A lot of other states are going to be
making a similar calculation in the next couple of years.”
It would take about $20 today to buy what $15 could buy 10 years ago,
according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. EPI backs raising the federal
minimum wage to $17 an hour by 2028.
Pluribus News
December 1, 2023
US law hamstrings organising efforts because it allows employers to punish union leaders with minimal consequences and to hold mandatory meetings where workers must listen to anti-union messages, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. Earlier UAW efforts to organise in the south met defeat at Nissan’s plant in Mississippi and VW’s in Tennessee, while in February, 18 workers at Tesla said they were fired for organising a union drive.
Financial Times
December 1, 2023
According to the Economic Policy Institute, nearly half of U.S. employers are charged with violating federal law in union election campaigns, from illegally firing workers to coercing and threatening workers. Some employers, flush with enough cash, hire professional union-busters to water down pro-union support within the workforce.
Orlando Weekly
December 1, 2023
The U.S. Department of Labor, which investigated those three businesses, found a 37% national increase in the number of minors whose employment has violated federal labor laws in some way since 2021, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Salt Lake Tribune
December 1, 2023
Behn noted a recent progressive Economic Policy Institute report showed more than 60% of corporations filing in Tennessee pay “zero in state corporate income tax,” a figure she said includes “27% of all billion-dollar corporations.”
Chattanooga Times Free Press
December 1, 2023
On average, teachers earn 23.5% less than comparable college graduates, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Richmond Times-Dispatch
December 1, 2023
▪ Cost of living. The typical budget for a two-parent, two-child family in Sacramento County is $7,689 per month, according to 2020 data from the Economic Policy Institute in Washington. The calculation addresses what it calls a “modest yet adequate standard of living.”
Sacramento Bee
December 1, 2023
The Economic Policy Institute estimates that anywhere from 27% to 47% of all workers in the private sector are subject to some kind of non-compete restrictions.
The Daily Gazette
December 1, 2023
If the Affordable Care Act is abolished, an estimated 29.8 million people would lose their health insurance and 1.2 million jobs will be lost according to Economic Policy Institute.
Heartland Signal
December 1, 2023