The Economic Policy Institute reported last year that CEOs at the nation’s top 350 public firms made 399 times what the typical worker got in compensation, up from 366-to-1 the year before. The ratio was 59-1 in 1989, and just 20-1 in 1965.
Buffalo News
September 1, 2023
A number of studies have documented gig workers’ subminimum wages.
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Nearly a third of gig workers (29%) reported earning less than the minimum wage in their state, according to a June 2022 report by the Economic Policy Institute.
NerdWallet
September 1, 2023
New research from the Economic Policy Institute states that 30% of Indiana’s workforce work at jobs that pay less than the state’s living wage benchmark of $18/hour.
WRTV
September 1, 2023
“When thinking about the minimum wage, earnings, income and wealth, we still have a long way to go,” said Adewale Maye, policy and research analyst with the Economic Policy Institute (EPI).
EPI is a non-partisan, non-profit. Maye’s report called “Chasing the Dream of Equity” used a quantitative lens to examine how much progress has been made and where disparities remain. Maye spent one year gathering and reviewing federal data.
“Some of the things that we found was that a lot of these indicators have grown more disparate over time. The inequities have broadened,” Maye said.
ABC 7 News DC
September 1, 2023
- Kyle Moore, economist with the Economic Policy Institute’s Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), talks about a new report from EPI that examines the economic impact of Civil Rights-era legislation and where gaps remain.
The Brian Lehrer Show
September 1, 2023
A new report shows 60 years after the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, economic disparities continue to plague Black America due to a lack of legislation in the post-civil rights era.
The Economic Policy Institute, in its report, notes that gaps in home ownership, wealth and wages continue to keep one of the march’s goals — economic justice — out of reach for many Black people.
The barriers to economic equity include “occupational segregation, discrimination, hiring and pay inequity, equitable pathways to promotion, a stagnant minimum wage and falling union coverage,” Adewale A. Maye, policy analyst in the institute’s program on race, ethnicity and the economy, told theGrio.
Thegrio.com
September 1, 2023
Adewale Maye talked about his research that found post-civil rights era legislation has largely failed to address widening racial disparities in wages, wealth, and homeownership for Black Americans.
C-SPAN Washington Journal
September 1, 2023
According to a report by the Economic Policy Institute, a national $15 minimum wage by 2025 would raise the incomes of tens of millions of workers, including servers in restaurants, grocery store employees, and essential health care workers as well as two million direct care workers who provide long-term services and supports.
The Hill
September 1, 2023
Chasing the Dream of equity: How policy has shaped economic racial disparities, delves into how public policy and economic conditions have failed to heed the 1963 call for justice. Published by the nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute (EPI), the report reveals a disturbing economic landscape despite the enactment of a series of laws intended to bring economic parity for all.
EurWeb
September 1, 2023
Part of the problem is teachers’ low pay compared with that of other workers with similar education levels, according to a 2022 report by the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank that advocates for lower- and middle-income workers. Median pay for high-school teachers was $61,820 a year in 2021, according to the most recent Labor Department data, with 10% of them earning less than $46,090.
Wall Street Journal
September 1, 2023