According to a 2020 Economic Policy Institute report, employers were charged with illegally firing workers in almost 20 percent of union elections.
Newsweek
September 19, 2023
Jennifer Sherer, director of the state worker power initiative for the Economic Policy Institute, said in an interview with Modern Retail that the deal creates a new model for other states to look at. The nine-member Fast Food Council will include two industry representatives, two franchisees, two employees, two employee advocates and a neutral chairperson, as well as non-voting state experts.
“It’s creating a new structure where workers from the industry themselves, along with government officials and industry representatives, are going to sit down with the data and experiences and each year have the ability to recommend new adjustments for wages,” she said.
Modern Retail
September 19, 2023
A report from the Economic Policy Institute noted that even if every penny of a $15 minimum wage was directed to price increases — rather than made up through reduced profits or improved productivity and streamlining — it would only boost prices by less than 0.5%. That is less than 100 times the rate of inflation the past two years, according to EPI.
GO Banking Rates
September 19, 2023
In another sign of resilience, the employment-population ratio among 25-54 year-olds is close to record levels, according to economist Elise Gould of think-tank the Economic Policy Institute.
At 80.9 percent, the figure is higher than it was pre-pandemic, above the level right before the Great Recession around 2008, and just slightly below the record level in 2000.
“I think that is showing a lot of strength,” she said.
AFP
September 19, 2023
According to an analysis last year by the Economic Policy Institute, the heads of the top 350 publicly traded companies earned annual incomes that were on average 399 times greater than a typical worker in 2021, up from 59-to-1 in 1989. This means that some executives’ pay is significantly greater than 399 times their employee’s pay. In fact, the heads of 22 S&P 500 companies earn at least 1,000 times more than what their typical workers take home. (See if some of these companies are also among the companies planning the biggest mass layoffs this year.)
24/7 Wall St.
September 18, 2023
According to data from the Economic Policy Institute, union membership peaked in 1985, when nearly 1 in 3 U.S. workers were under a union contract compared to 2022, where only around 1 in 10 U.S. workers were part of a union.
Fox 43
September 18, 2023
Nursing assistants like her, who do everything from daily chores to physically taxing tasks, are often stretched to their limits. Eight in ten residential long-term care workers are women, according to a report from the Economic Policy Institute. The industry relies on minorities and immigrants, too: Black women make up 22 percent of this industry compared with 6.5 percent of the overall workforce, and immigrant women about 13 percent compared with 7 percent. The median salary is $15.22 per hour, 25 percent lower than that of the overall workforce.
Think Global Health
September 18, 2023
David Cooper, director of the Economic Analysis and Research Network at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning economic think tank, is in favor of the change, arguing that the policy has “significant racial and gender parity implications” because it would raise pay for a workforce that has been historically disadvantaged.
The Eater
September 18, 2023
Wage theft amounts to about $60 billion a year according to reports by the Economic Policy Institute. Despite exposés, corporations regularly rip-off low-wage workers.
Counterpunch
September 18, 2023
Nevertheless, polls continue to show an excruciatingly close race between Biden and Trump (Trump 47-Biden 46 in the late-August CNN poll; Biden 44-Trump 42 in the early September Morning Consult poll). Heidi Shierholz, president of the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, told the New York Times, “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.”
The Messenger
September 18, 2023