A March report by the Economic Policy Institute said that 14 states have either introduced or passed bills that roll back child labour laws.
The Independent
August 4, 2023
In a 2019 study, the Economic Policy Institute concluded that those concerns were real, and the tourist dollars that the services bring in are outweighed by the shrinking of the long-term rental market and the drop in tax hotel revenues.
Bloomberg
August 4, 2023
In a similar vein, the plan calls for reinstating a Trump-era rule that made it easier to classify people as independent contractors who lack many of the protections enjoyed by employees. Berry labels this plan, which the Economic Policy Institute estimated would cost workers more than $3 billion per year, a part of “Making Family-Sustaining Work Accessible.”
Mother Jones
August 4, 2023
Mattel shut down its last U.S. factory — in Murray, Ky. — in 2001. Barbie, Hot Wheels and other Mattel toys are now made in China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico and Thailand. It’s a familiar narrative. The U.S. has lost more than 5 million manufacturing jobs to offshoring since 1998, according to the Economic Policy Institute, and the impact has been particularly hard on workers of color.
San Francisco Chronicle
August 4, 2023
The Economic Policy Institute said that talk of tariffs leading to rising inflation was “deeply dishonest”.
“The pre-Trump status quo in trade policy for decades was deeply damaging to working families and domestic business,” said Robert Scott, a research associate with EPI.
Forbes
August 4, 2023
The Economic Policy Institute, the nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank created to support the interests of low- and moderate-income workers, recently raised a warning flag over the growing trend among state legislatures to weaken child labor laws.
“In states across the country, lawmakers are engaged in a coordinated, corporate-backed campaign to weaken child labor protections,” the institute reported. “One type of protection — minimum ages to serve alcohol in bars and restaurants — has been eroded in seven states since 2021. While lowering the age to serve alcohol may sound benign, it is not. It puts young people at risk of sexual harassment, underage drinking, and other harms.”
Capitol Times
August 4, 2023
“Starbucks has employed both legal and illegal tactics in its effort to prevent workers from organizing,” said the Economic Policy Institute. Examples include requiring workers to attend “captive audience meetings,” a common union-busting tactic during which employers can discourage employees from joining a union, interrogate workers about the organizing campaign, and distribute anti-union materials. Starbucks is also alleged to have hired out-of-state support managers to monitor employee behavior and discourage unionization.
Up North News
August 4, 2023
“Something we should also celebrate is Georgia has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the nation for African Americans and Hispanic Americans — well below the national average, according to the Economic Policy Institute,” Kemp said. “Georgia is and it should remain a place where all people have access to opportunity.”
Saporta Report
August 4, 2023
According to the Washington, DC-based Economic Policy Institute, the gender pay gap in the US widened from 20.3 percent in 2019 to 22.2 percent in 2022
Al Jazeera
August 4, 2023
“Child labor laws are under attack in states across the country, just as violations of these standards are rising,” Jennifer Sherer, the senior state policy coordinator for the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning labor think tank, said in a recent statement. “The trend reflects a coordinated multi-industry push to expand employer access to low-wage labor, with the end goal of rewriting federal child labor laws and other worker protections for the whole country.”
The American Independent
August 4, 2023