State-by-state income rises across the Midwest were “all over the map,” from North Dakota’s double-digit percentage increase to just 2% for Wisconsin and 3% for Kansas and Michigan, said Nina Mast, who studied the region’s wage trends in the pandemic in an October study for the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, D.C.
The region as a whole suffered lower wage growth compared with other regions in the pandemic through 2022, threatening to increase inequality and hurt middle-class workers, who increasingly lack union representation, Mast said.
States Newsroom
November 3, 2023
Finally, electrician Amanda Cooling talks about the hurdles for women in male-dominated fields, and Jennifer Sherer of The Economic Policy Institute explains why women’s representation in the trades industry hasn’t budged from 3%.
Iowa Public Radio
November 3, 2023
Policy Matters Ohio Economist Michael Shields referenced a new analysis of federal data compiled by the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal Washington D.C.-based think tank, which indicated median Ohio wages went down from $22.60 in 2020 to $21.51 in 2022.
Fox 5 Cleveland
November 3, 2023
In addition to CEO pay rising by over 1,000 percent since 1978, the Economic Policy Institute reported that CEOs were paid 399 times as much as the average worker in 2021.
Nonprofit Quarterly
November 3, 2023
There are many ways to intervene in gender inequality in the U.S., from widening access to health care to promoting participation in male-dominated fields, Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute told USA TODAY, but it’s not a one-size-fits-all all solution when gendered pay difference maps across so many different systems, especially race.
“I think there’s no silver bullet in the United States to close the gender pay gap,” Gould said. “We have a lot more economic inequality in general.”
USA Today
November 3, 2023
Organization has been difficult in recent years. About 11.3% of workers were represented by unions last year compared with 23.6% in 1982, according to data analyzed by the Economic Policy Institute.
Reuters
November 3, 2023
“We’re seeing a coordinated multi-industry push to roll back labor standards, and what that’s really reflecting is industry’s desire to maintain and expand their access to pools of low wage labor,” said Jennifer Sherer, director of the State Worker Power Initiative at the Economic Policy Institute. “And in this case doing that in a really disturbing way that can expose children to hazardous conditions or long, excessive hours that we know based on research, can put kids in a high risk category for their grades slipping.”
WGBH
November 3, 2023
Margaret Poydock, a senior analyst at the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive economic think tank, applauded the rule.
“This standard reflects the [NLRA’s] purpose of promoting collective bargaining by adopting a joint-employer standard that enables workers to hold all firms that set their terms and conditions of employment accountable at the bargaining table,” Poydock wrote in an email to Restaurant Dive.
Restaurant Dive
November 3, 2023
The report, authored by the Jain Family Institute’s Data Science Research Associate Eduard Nilaj and Economic Policy Institute economist Kyle K. Moore, highlights the following key findings:
- Young borrowers in D.C. bear the highest student loan debts in the United States, leading to high debt-to-income ratios that hinder loan repayment, with racial disparities amplifying these financial challenges, particularly in Black-majority areas.
The Washington Informer
November 3, 2023