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
But according to a report published last week by the Economic Policy Institute, at least seven states have enacted laws to lower their alcohol service age since 2021, including West Virginia and Iowa, which lowered the minimum age to 16, and Michigan, which lowered it to 17. The bills are backed by restaurant lobbying groups as part of a broader effort to loosen child labor laws “to cut labor costs and deregulate employment”, the report writes – at a time when child labor violations are on the rise across the country.
The Guardian
August 4, 2023
A report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) last year showed the average weekly wages of teachers went up only $29 from 1996 to 2021.
The Hill
August 4, 2023
Twenty-four states have increased their minimum wages by legislation or ballot measure since 2016, according to the Economic Policy Institute. These include red states like Florida, Arizona, and Arkansas. The most recent statewide increases are going into effect this summer in Connecticut, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington D.C.
24/7 Wall St.
August 4, 2023
Daniel Costa, who is the author of the report and the director of Immigration Law and Policy Research at the EPI, noted that “an employer may select an entire workforce composed of a single nationality, gender, or age group” under the program.
Further, “employers and recruiters can also weed out workers who might dare to speak out against unlawful employment practices, assert their legal rights, or organize for better working conditions by joining or forming a union … by firing them and effectively forcing them to leave the country, or by threatening to blacklist them … ,” Costa said.
LA Progressive
August 4, 2023