Cites EPI study on merger. [Paywall].
Anchorage Daily News
September 8, 2023
The Economic Policy Institute reported the average annual cost for infant care in Connecticut tops $15,000. Child care for a four-year-old is almost $13,000 per year.
Public News Service
September 8, 2023
The challenges in organizing retail workers are compounded in the South by the legacies of slavery and Jim Crow laws, said Jennifer Sherer, a senior state policy coordinator at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. Southern industry interests’ successful push to exclude agricultural and domestic workers from federal labor relations law had an outsized impact on Black people in the South, Sherer said.
That meant those workers were excluded from minimum wage and overtime protections. While domestic workers now must be paid at least minimum wage, live-in home workers still don’t have overtime protections.
Politico
September 8, 2023
Join a union, though, and your chances of getting paid vacation increase profoundly. A 2009 book from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) found that, after 25 years, unionized employees get nearly 27% more vacation weeks than their non-unionized counterparts.
Teen Vogue
September 8, 2023
According to the Economic Policy Institute, the federal minimum wage currently stands at the lowest it has been since 1956. A worker earning $7.25 today essentially earns $5000 less than a person working the same job in 2009.
The Daily Dot
September 8, 2023
According to a 2022 report from the Economic Policy Institute, a third of all domestic workers were born outside the United States and many are undocumented.
The Nation
September 8, 2023
“We believe that this merger may have significant adverse effects on the financial well-being of the people of our states,” the treasurers wrote. They noted that a study by the Economic Policy Institute suggests the merger could result in a loss of $334 million in wages for 746,000 grocery store workers in more than 50 metropolitan areas.
The Columbian
September 8, 2023
Nine years ago, the Economic Policy Institute reported that over $50 billion a year is stolen from workers nationally—that’s more than the cost of all robberies, burglaries, and motor vehicle thefts combined. This theft occurs daily and disproportionately affects immigrant workers.
Nonprofit Quarterly
September 8, 2023
Research by the Economic Policy Institute found legislation, pending or enacted, in at least 10 states proposing to relax child labor standards over the past two years.
The Tribune-Democrat
September 8, 2023
“I’ve never seen this big of a disconnect between how the economy is actually doing and key polling results about what people think is going on,” Heidi Shierholz, president of the Economic Policy Institute, told The New York Times. The question is not only why does Biden not get more credit for this economic recovery, but also why does the media seem so deeply disinterested in the impact of Biden’s presidency? I think these two phenomena are linked. Bidenworld’s biggest problem is likely also its superpower: its boringness.
Vanity Fair
September 8, 2023