An Economic Policy Institutestudy published last year found that RTW states “have lower unionization rates, wages, and benefits compared with non-RTW states.”
Wage and Hour investigations of farms reached a record low in 2022 according to the Economic Policy Institute. Since then, investigative staff shrank a further 9.5%.
According to an analysis from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), the bottom fifth of income earners would see their household incomes diminish by 7.4 percent if the GOP’s spending cuts are approved. Meanwhile, an extension of the Trump tax cuts from 2017 would only increase their incomes by 0.6 percent.
I suspect that the latter two are at play here in removing critical data on covered populations that is needed for the implementation of the Digital Equity Act. As the Economic Policy Institute explains, these executive orders and subsequent OPM Guidance “require agencies to remove all DEIA-related materials from their website[s].”
The Economic Policy Institute last week released a report detailing how extending the expiring provisions from the tax law that Republican lawmakers passed and Trump signed in 2017 “will have painful trade-offs for the U.S. economy and most Americans.”
Six government labor unions, two nonprofit groups, and the think tank Economic Policy Institute are suing the departments of Labor and Health and Human Services, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and DOGE to prevent the office from accessing a wide range of data, including federal workers’ wage-theft complaints and injury reports, for purposes allegedly “inconsistent with the Privacy Act.”
Let’s take for our example the National Labor Relations Board, which I know best. Under Biden, the NLRB barred management from gerrymandering union bargaining units to their advantage; it streamlined the process for union elections; and it barred employers from firing employees engaged in collective action merely for using offensive language. (I’m grateful for these examples to Lynn Rhinehart, Celine McNichols, and Margaret Poydock of the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute.)
For example, the Economic Policy Institute estimates the average cost of living for two adults in the New York area, which includes New York City, at $7,742 a month or $92,899 a year.