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
A 2022 report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a research and policy organization in Washington, D.C., that looks at the impact on workers of economic trends and policies, listed delivery drivers as one of 11 occupations with workers “particularly vulnerable to illegal misclassification.”
“We’re literally talking about generations of policymaking and struggle that workers have engaged in to set some basic expectations and standards in our history, and also the contemporary expectation that most U.S. residents have about some basic, very minimal floors that we want to set for standards in our labor market,” said Jennifer Sherer, director of the State Worker Power Initiative at EPI.
Wisconsin Examiner
December 15, 2023
Inflation can have many roots. Typically, it’s caused by “a macroeconomic excess of spending over the economy’s relative ability to produce goods and services,” said Josh Bivens, the director of research at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank based in Washington D.C.
That means more people are wanting items and services than there is adequate supply, leading producers to raise prices.
USA Today
December 15, 2023
A report published last year by Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit think tank the Economic Policy Institute found that Colorado teachers earn 35.9% less than other college-educated workers — the worst gap in the country.
Colorado Sun
December 15, 2023
Supporters viewed the rule’s likely outcomes differently. In practice, the rule will reduce turnover, save taxpayer money and make federal procurement more efficient, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank based in Washington, D.C.
SHRM
December 15, 2023