Improperly compensating Black women isn’t just bad for those of us directly experiencing it, but a risk to the economy at large. As highlighted in work done by the Economic Policy Institute, the devaluation of care work is directly related to anti-blackness and sexism.
Essence
September 8, 2023
A 2019 analysis from the Economic Policy Institute found that companies spent $340 million annually on union-avoiding consultants who helped deter organizers. Employers were also charged with violating federal law in 41.5% of all union election campaigns.
USA Today
September 8, 2023
According to the Economic Policy Institute, Missouri is one of 30 states with a minimum wage exceeding the federal minimum of $7.25 per hour.
Southeast Missourian
September 8, 2023
One study by the Economic Policy Institute estimates there are more than 56,000 domestic workers in the Chicago metro area, the majority of whom are women of color.
WBEZ
September 8, 2023
All in all, the true cost of wage theft amounts to something substantially north of chump change: A 2017 study from the Economic Policy Institute “estimated that low-wage workers lose more than $50 billion annually to wage theft.”
The New Republic
September 8, 2023
Yet according to the Economic Policy Institute, while more jobs were unionized last year, nonunion jobs were added at a faster rate — so the share of union membership remains low.
NC Newsline
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,” said Heidi Shierholz, president of the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank in Washington.
New York Times
September 8, 2023
Elise Gould, senior economist for the Economic Policy Institute, said in a report following Friday’s announcement that she was “not particularly concerned about the uptick in unemployment” because of the other positive indicators like reports that wages are up, and increases in key sectors like health care and construction.
Military Times
September 8, 2023
The monthly unemployment data can be “notably volatile,” Elise Gould, an economist with the Economic Policy Institute wrote in commentary Friday.
“I’m hopeful that those upticks were statistical blips,” she wrote. “The unemployment drop was accompanied by an increase in employment, though participation softened as well.”
CNN Business
September 8, 2023
“I am relieved that the Black unemployment rate is coming down; it had been a little elevated a couple of months earlier,” said Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute. “Hopefully that’s a positive trend.”
CNBC
September 8, 2023