A 2019 Economic Policy Institute study concluded that the economic harm Airbnb caused to long-term renters by reducing the housing supply and raising prices outweighed the benefits to travelers and property owners.
Pew Stateline
December 1, 2023
According to recent information from the Economic Policy Institute, presented at a committee hearing in November, the average cost of infant care in Minnesota is roughly 21-percent of the state’s median family income.
KTTC
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
And these contracts are also a sign that employers could have been paying workers more all along, said Heidi Shierholz, an economist and president of the Economic Policy Institute, a union-supported think tank.
“What we’ve seen until the recent period is a real imbalance of power has allowed employers to set wages at a level below what their revenue and profits could bear,” she said. “We’re seeing some reversal of that right now.”
“I think there is a momentum aspect of this,” said EPI’s Shierholz. “The success, and the public support for these strikers, that stiffens the spine of those striking or threatening to strike. It feels like a lesson being re-learned about the power in collective action.”
CNN Business
November 22, 2023
A study by the Economic Policy Institute found that teachers’ unions reduced stress, while anti-union laws increase teacher stress.
We Are Teachers
November 22, 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.
Financial Times
November 22, 2023
Recent research from the Economic Policy Institute found rising inflation hurt public school teachers’ salaries nationwide, and districts like Portland Public Schools are struggling to keep up.
K-12 Dive
November 22, 2023