These credentials may be needed as a temporary fix because according to the Economic Policy Institute, by 2024, new teachers will only fulfill one third of the national demand for teachers.
WCTI News 12
August 15, 2023
The cost of raising a child in the U.S. varies dramatically according to where you live. Using data from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), we compared the average cost of child care for a 4-year-old across states.
Unsurprisingly, child care costs are most expensive in states where the cost of living is higher. Massachusetts and Connecticut rank as the states with the highest child care costs, while expenses are more affordable in the Southern states of Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas.
MarketWatch
August 15, 2023
In California, workers lose roughly $2 billion annually from employers who aren’t paying minimum wage, and that’s just one form of wage theft, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Many of those victimized, often lower-income immigrants and women, will never file an official complaint with the state agency tasked with investigating wage theft because they fear retaliation.
KQED
August 15, 2023
Updated story from October 2022.
Inflation is a “generalized rise in prices,” said Josh Bivens, the director of research at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank based in Washington D.C. For example, goods like gas, rent or food can be impacted by inflation.
“Inflation, though, really is meant to only refer to all goods and services, together, rising in price by some common amount,” he explained.
USA Today
August 10, 2023
The case comes as child labor protections are being rolled back in nearly a dozen states around the country, according to a report from the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank. At the same time, child labor violations are increasing, the report found, citing Department of Labor data.
McClatchy
August 10, 2023
Latine workers form the backbone of the American agricultural industry. Without them, we could not eat. Without them, our larger food systems would crumble.
But farmworkers earn “far less than even some of the lowest-paid workers in the U.S. labor force,” according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Public News Service
August 10, 2023
Progressive think tanks have argued that such changes will make it easier for workers to receive higher pay and better benefits. In its comment on the proposed rule in May 2022, the Economic Policy Institute said research has established that prevailing wage laws increase worker pay, help more workers get pension plans, and improve workers’ health care coverage as well as make the construction industry more equitable for women and workers of color.
States Newsroom
August 10, 2023
Since 2014, 30 states have effectively raised their minimum-wage law, says the Economic Policy Institute.
Christian Science Monitor
August 10, 2023
Arkansas isn’t the only state trying to chip away at child labor protections. In the past few years, Iowa, New Hampshire and New Jersey have enacted laws that roll back previous protections for child workers like extending allowable work hours and loosening restrictions on hazardous work, and several more states have introduced similar bills, according to analysis from the left-of-center Economic Policy Institute. Some of these laws, like Iowa’s, which allows 14- and 15-year-olds to work up to six hours a day during the school year, conflict with federal labor law.
According to Nina Mast, a state economic analyst at the Economic Policy Institute, the ultimate goal of the proponents of these state laws is to weaken federal child labor law.
New York Times
August 10, 2023
At least 14 states have introduced or enacted laws within the past two years that relaxed child labor restrictions, according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank.
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But removing those restrictions is not the only way to address labor shortages or encourage youth employment, said Nina Mast, an economic analyst with EPI’s Economic Analysis and Research Network. Employers, Mast continued, could explore training pathways for minors such as pre-apprenticeship training.
“If employers feel that their only strategy to [combat labor shortages] is to open those jobs to youth who have historically been barred from that work, I would say that that is the wrong strategy,” Mast said.
HR Dive
August 10, 2023