During this year’s legislative session, lawmakers proposed raising the minimum wage to $20 an hour (and $21.25 in New York City); the move would deliver a wage boost to more than 400,000 people living in poverty, the Economic Policy Institute has estimated. That bill has not passed the legislature.
Press-Republican
January 7, 2025
The CEOs of the largest publicly traded companies in the country saw their pay decline 19.4% from 2022-2023, despite a strong economy and stock market, according to a recent analysis from the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank.
Axios Charlotte
January 7, 2025
According to the press release from Policy Matters Ohio, the Economic Policy Institute estimates that roughly 112,700 Ohioans that are paid less than $10.70 will have a direct wage increase. 200,600 Ohioans paid slightly above the minimum wage will likely see an increase in their wages.
WTAP-TV
January 7, 2025
During the pandemic recovery, middle-income households saw the slowest wage growth among all groups between 2019 and 2023, according to data from the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank.
MarketWatch
January 7, 2025
…staff to fill in the gaps. According to a recent from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), the number of bus drivers has dropped by…[paywall].
Epoch Times
January 7, 2025
Indeed, as Breitbart News has chronicled, research has continuously shown that tariffs on foreign imports under Trump are unrelated to inflation that reached record highs under President Joe Biden following the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act.
The Economic Policy Institute (EPI), in extensive analysis, for instance, has noted that there is no link between U.S. tariffs and inflation.
“The timing of the tariffs clearly shows no correlation with inflation, and eliminating tariffs could not plausibly restrain it,” EPI researchers write. “The bulk of the tariffs were in place before 2020, yet, inflation only began accelerating in March 2021. Clearly, inflation was driven by many sources besides tariffs.”
Breitbart
January 7, 2025
In H-1B visa hires, a small portion of companies use this program the most. In 2022, the top 30 H-1B employers hired 40 percent of the applicants, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
The Michigan Star
January 7, 2025
Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee voted overwhelmingly in April to join the United Auto Workers, a landmark win for labor organizing in the South. The region has suffered deeply because of its low-road, anti-union economic model. Seven out of ten states with the highest levels of poverty are in the South, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Inequality.org
January 6, 2025
Currently there 20 states with a minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, either because the state’s minimum wage is $7.25 or below, or there is no state-mandated minimum wage, so the federal dollar amount applies, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Common Dreams
January 6, 2025