This led to concessions, while failing to prevent offshoring to Mexico. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) eliminated 700,000 U.S. jobs, according to a 2013 estimate by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
American Prospect
September 8, 2023
Though the United States has tragically seen a large-scale decline in labor power since the 1980s, workers today are more militant and mobilized than they have been in some time. According to the Economic Policy Institute, U.S. strike activity increased by nearly 50 percent last year—even as the percentage of workers represented by a union dropped one-third of a percentage point.
Dissent Magazine
September 8, 2023
The investigation into Florence Hardwoods came during a push over the last two years to loosen regulations governing what jobs minors can perform in the workplace. Lawmakers in 14 states — including Wisconsin — have proposed rolling back child labor laws, according to the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute.
Wisconsin Public Radio
September 8, 2023
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