Quotes Elise Gould [paywall].
Barron’s
September 29, 2023
If Dollar General is in the running for America’s worst retail job, the pay doesn’t much help. Most of its employees make less than $12 an hour, and close to 1 in 4 make less than $10, according to an Economic Policy Institute study of 2021 survey data. That puts it below Walmart, which raised its hourly minimum to $12 in 2021 and bumped it to $14 this year.
Bloomberg
September 22, 2023
Landing in the top 10% is a fairly attainable goal for upwardly mobile Americans. A 2022 study by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) found that the average earnings of those in the top 10% were roughly $167,629 in 2021.
MoneyWise
September 22, 2023
The J-1, according to the Economic Policy Institute, has a history of being used by employers to exploit cheap labor.
The Messenger
September 22, 2023
A 2020 study by the Economic Policy Institute found more than 70% of federal labor standards investigations of farms detect violations, ranging from wage theft to inadequate housing and other infractions.
But with one wage and hour investigator for every 175,000 workers, the federal labor department likely misses a wide swath of violations, the study found.
Greeley Tribune
September 22, 2023
According to the Economic Policy Institute, there have been at least 12 bills filed in 10 separate states over the past two years aimed at loosening child labor laws.
Action News Jax
September 22, 2023
A letter sent Wednesday to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration from David Michaels, who led the agency under President Obama, argues that “the agency’s grant of authority from Congress includes the power to protect workers’ mental health from workplace hazards.”
- Co-signers of the letter, which was provided exclusively to Axios, include the National Education Association and the Service Employees International Union. The left-leaning Governing for Impact and the Economic Policy Institute are also among the signers.
Axios
September 22, 2023
The ratio of CEO pay to the average, non-supervisory production worker at the biggest U.S. companies has jumped from less than 40 to 1 over the last four decades to nearly 400 to 1, the Economic Policy Institute calculated in 2022.
Reuters
September 22, 2023
Since 1978, the CEO compensation among America’s 300 biggest companies has gone up 1,460%, while the typical worker’s pay grew by just 18% (both adjusted for inflation), according to the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank.
CNN Business
September 22, 2023
According to the Economic Policy Institute, adjusted for inflation, wages for autoworkers in the U.S. have fallen 19% since 2008.
Tech Crunch
September 22, 2023