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
In many of her videos, Mik discusses financial inequities that are disproportionately affecting her generation, like in this clip where she states that the buying power of the country’s national minimum wage is the lowest it’s been in 66 years — and it appears that these metrics have been supported by the Economic Policy Institute as well.
Distractify
November 17, 2023
“The mismanaged integration of the United States into the global economy has devastated US manufacturing workers and their communities,” the Economic Policy Institute wrote last year, referring to the wave of globalization between 1998 and 2021.
Business Insider
November 17, 2023
Some proponents of the Biden administration’s latest proposal also wrote the Trump-era rule was “woefully inadequate.” Several commenters in support of the new rule pointed to an analysis from The Economic Policy Institute that estimates that the current salary threshold of $35,568 “captures just 15% of the full-time, salaried workforce.”
Bloomberg Law
November 17, 2023
According to the Economic Policy Institute, infant care costs an average of more than $1,300 per month, a staggering 20 percent of Minnesota’s median family income.
KTTC (NBC)
November 17, 2023
The Columbian
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.
19th News
November 17, 2023
One year later, Dean Baker projected for the Economic Policy Institute that the peak impact of baby boomers’ retirement would be realized in 2030.
Fortune
November 17, 2023