About a third of domestic workers are immigrants, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank that analyzes the impact of economic policy.
The Nation
November 17, 2023
Baltimore Business Journal
November 17, 2023
Similarly, data from the Economic Policy Institute found wage disparity has significantly increased over time: CEOs were paid 344 times as much as a typical worker in 2022, up from an average pay ratio of 21 to 1 in 1965.
HR Dive
November 17, 2023
Richard Rothstein, whose 2017 book, “The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America,” documented how federal, state and local policies explicitly created racially homogenous neighborhoods, told Stateline that merely removing racist covenants won’t address current housing disparities. He described the covenants as “the least important of these policies affecting systemic barriers in housing, especially after they lost enforcement power.”
But Rothstein, a fellow at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, praised the Washington bill as “a justifiable measure to restore harm done through those covenants.”
Pew Stateline
November 17, 2023
An Economic Policy Institute report also cites how unionized workers secured enhanced safety measures, premium pay, paid sick time and a say in the terms of furloughs or work-share arrangements to save jobs during the pandemic.
Scientific American
November 17, 2023
The Economic Policy Institute: Their blockbuster report uncovered that over the past two decades major H-2B employers have stolen $1.8 billion from workers.
EPI’s researcher and the damning report’s author, Daniel Costa, turned out to be prescient. Costa wrote that, despite its shameless exploitation of workers, and its consistent failure to add worker protections to the program, the H-2B program is “growing.” Lo and behold, at 4:08pm, Friday, November 8, DHS Secretary Alejando Mayorkas’ DHS doubled the H-2B program.
Highland County Press
November 17, 2023
In 2022, CEOs made 344 times as much as the typical worker, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
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In 2022, the Economic Policy Institute suggested that corporate profits could decline to accommodate minimum wage increases.
“Lower profit margins are a huge potential absorber of any price pressures in coming years — particularly those as small as what a minimum wage increase would impose,” the EPI wrote.
Marketplace
November 17, 2023
In many of her videos, Mik discusses financial inequities that are disproportionately affecting her generation, like in this clip where she states that the buying power of the country’s national minimum wage is the lowest it’s been in 66 years — and it appears that these metrics have been supported by the Economic Policy Institute as well.
Distractify
November 17, 2023
“The mismanaged integration of the United States into the global economy has devastated US manufacturing workers and their communities,” the Economic Policy Institute wrote last year, referring to the wave of globalization between 1998 and 2021.
Business Insider
November 17, 2023
Some proponents of the Biden administration’s latest proposal also wrote the Trump-era rule was “woefully inadequate.” Several commenters in support of the new rule pointed to an analysis from The Economic Policy Institute that estimates that the current salary threshold of $35,568 “captures just 15% of the full-time, salaried workforce.”
Bloomberg Law
November 17, 2023