The Economic Policy Institute noted several states recently proposed or enacted laws extending the hours 14- and 15-year-olds can work. Both New Jersey and New Hampshire passed such laws in 2022. The New Hampshire law lowered the age for minors to bus tables where alcohol is served from 15 to 14 and increased the number of hours per week 16- and 17-year-olds can work. Bills have proposed paying young workers below a state’s minimum wage and allowing them to do more hazardous jobs.
The Duncan Banner
December 8, 2023
But Heidi Shierholz, president of the Economic Policy Institute and former chief economist at the Labor Department, is more optimistic. She believes that given the totality of job data (terminations, vacancies, entitlements, hours worked, wages), there is likely to be some slowdown in job creation; The apparent stability may be noise. But she believes this is the pattern one would expect as an economy approaches full employment: Monthly job gains and other measures are slowing. The key point is that we are slowly approaching the rate of employment growth that simply keeps pace with the growth of the working-age population – somewhere in the range of 75,000 to 100,000.
Financial Times
December 8, 2023
But low wages, which agriculture industry leaders say are necessary to keep U.S.-grown produce competitive, are another factor. Farmworkers in 2020 earned an average of $14.62 an hour, according to the Economic Policy Institute, and some earned less.
New York Times
December 8, 2023
A state child care task force report from last December found Washington’s child care market to be “broken.” The report pointed to estimates from the Economic Policy Institute that showed costs average around $14,500 per year.
The Columbian
December 8, 2023
According to the Economic Policy Institute, since 1978, CEO pay increased more than 1,200%.
At the same time, the pay of the typical American workers rose 15.3%.
Robert Reich Substack
December 8, 2023
Between 1979 and 2021, the wages of Americans in the top 1% grew by 206%, after adjusting for inflation, according to an analysis by the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute. In the same years, wages for the bottom 90% grew by only 29%.
USA Today
December 8, 2023
According to a 2020 study by the Economic Policy Institute, teachers are paid an average of 20% less than similarly educated professionals.
The Connecticut Mirror
December 8, 2023
The forced arbitration issue has been highlighted as problematic by diverse voices from Josh Hammer to the Economic Policy Institute to Americans for Tax Reform. Ending forced arbitration should appeal to libertarians, free marketeers, and “new right” folks alike.
The American Conservative
December 8, 2023
It is estimated that by 2025 there will be 100,000 unfilled teaching positions, according to a 2019 Economic Policy Institute Report.
Visalia Times Delta
December 8, 2023
As a result, from 2019 to 2022, workers in the 10th percentile of earners saw wages grow by 9%, while top earners (or those in the 90th percentile) saw wages grow 4.9%, according to an analysis by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute of Current Population Survey data.
Quartz
December 8, 2023