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• The GOP’s Brand Is Chaos

  All in all, the true cost of wage theft amounts to something substantially north of chump change: A 2014 study from the Economic Policy Institute “a nationwide epidemic that costs American workers as much as $50 billion a year.”*

  New Republic November 3, 2023
• Thank You, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, for Flagging Biden Labor Policies You Hate

  I, too, wish the EPI weren’t so very dominant on research related to workers. There ought to be more excellent Washington-based nonprofits producing a comparable quantity of first-rate studies on such matters. Given labor issues’ centrality to the Democratic Party agenda (or anyway what’s supposed to be the Democratic Party agenda), it’s kind of a scandal that there aren’t. 

  New Republic November 3, 2023
• It’s time for an expansive new labor movement

  This gap has ballooned in recent years. A report from the Economic Policy Institute found that, in 2021, CEOs at top companies earned 399..

  Boston Globe November 3, 2023
• Labor Board’s Joint Employer Rule Faces Court, Congress Hurdles

  Paywall. 

  Bloomberg Law November 3, 2023
• Publix sued over alleged unpaid overtime, accused of off-the-clock work violations

  Below is a statement from Morgan & Morgan attorney Ryan Morgan and Shavitz Law Group attorney Gregg Shavitz:

  Every year, according to the Economic Policy Institute, American workers lose as much as $50 billion per year to wage theft.

  WZTV November 3, 2023
• Proposed rollback of child labor law in FL gets pushback; critics say kids would be exploited

  In fact, Florida is the 13th state this year to introduce legislation that would roll back labor laws intended to protect minors, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank in Washington, D.C.

  The organization says that the bill “proposes rolling back long-standing state standards adopted more than a century ago in response to widespread exploitation of children” and contends it will “harm Florida’s poorest youth and their families.”

  Florida Phoenix November 3, 2023
• Publix accused of employee wage theft in federal class-action lawsuit. What to know

  Every year, according to the Economic Policy Institute, American workers lose as much as $50 billion per year to wage theft. Our clients have experienced something many workers face as we all become reachable on our phones at any time of day or night — that companies expect employees to be in constant communication but fail to track this time worked. It’s unacceptable to force hourly workers to work outside of their shifts and to not pay workers for their time.

  Miami Herald November 3, 2023
• It looks like striking auto workers forced Ford’s bosses into a record 25% pay increase

  Paywall. 

  Business Insider November 3, 2023
• Morris Pearl Says Americans Shouldn’t Be Worried About the National Debt. Here’s Why.

  The lack of complaining from the GOP in 2017 when Trump passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) serves as a key example. This bill, according to the nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute, provided significant benefits to wealthy Americans and corporations. However, it did little to help working families.

  Business Insider November 3, 2023
• The Midwest is getting left behind as the rest of America sees big raises

  Compared to the rest of the US, the Midwest is lagging in terms of real median wage growth, rising just 0.4% — or eight cents — from 2019 to 2022, new research from the left-leaning think tank Economic Policy Institute shows. This is in contrast to the nation’s 3.1% median wage growth during the same period.

  Workers in the Northeast saw a median wage growth increase of 5.7% during the three-year period, while the West rose 4.7%. The South was a bit above the Midwest at 0.9%.

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  Though federal funding from the American Rescue Plan Act and the CARES Act helped many Midwesterners stay afloat, the Midwest “has endured years of slow wage growth, slow job growth, public-sector employment shortfalls, and declines in unionization,” the report notes.

  “That decline was ushered in by a period of austerity — disinvestment in the public sector, as well as in public-sector employment — trade policies that incentivized offshoring, and a host of anti-worker policies that have limited the collective bargaining power of workers and the ability of unions to secure higher wages for their members, and in turn, all workers in the region,” Nina Mast, one of the study’s coauthors, told Insider.

  Business Insider November 3, 2023