Teachers’ pay has declined over the years compared to pay for other jobs, according to a recent report by Sylvia Allegretto, a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute.
Business Insider
November 21, 2023
Features interview with Heidi Shierholz.
Bloomberg TV
November 17, 2023
Daniel Costa, director of immigration law and policy research at the nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., said the United States had increased reliance on seasonal farm workers with H-2A visas to carry the load in plant and animal agriculture.
However, he said, the federal government hadn’t established protections to shield workers in the farm program from egregious exploitation.
“Migrant workers who are recruited to the United States to fill job openings should also have certain rights,” he said. “They should have the right to leave an abusive or law-breaking employer without fearing retaliation and deportation.”
Kansas Reflector
November 17, 2023
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