To identify the states that have introduced legislation or enacted laws to make it easier and cheaper to employ minors, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed an analysis of enacted or pending state legislation across the country by the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning labor-policy nonprofit research group. The status of pending legislation has been updated as of May 31.
24/7 Wall St.
June 23, 2023
Yesterday at the Economic Policy Institute’s Working Economics Blog, in a posting that preceded the latest news about Alito from ProPublica, Eve Tahmincioglu, Celine McNicholas and Daniel Costa wrote about why these Supreme Court justices’ close ties with business interests are a clear threat to workers’ rights:
The Stand
June 23, 2023
Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, said even as women try to educate themselves out of the pay gap, “the average wage for women with advanced degrees is still lower than the average wage for men with only a college degree.”
Marketplace
June 23, 2023
Teachercertification.com analyzed cost-of-living data from the Economic Policy Institute’s Family Budget Calculator alongside income and employment data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for elementary, middle, and high school teachers to see where the biggest gaps between living costs and income exist.
Citizen Tribune
June 23, 2023
The dissertation set the tone for four decades of research and leadership by a scholar-activist of great intellect and great conscience, who went on to chair the economics department at Howard University, helped to define the Economic Policy Institute’s work on labor issues, led the National Commission for Employment Policy and the National Wage Record Database Design Project Report for the Clinton administration, served as assistant secretary for policy in Obama’s Labor Department, and spent the last decade of his life teaching economics at Howard and working with the AFL-CIO.
Capitol Times
June 23, 2023
If approved by Gov. Hochul, the noncompete agreement bill could have expansive effects: About 44% of employers statewide subject some workers to noncompete agreements, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit.
NY Daily News
June 23, 2023
Here’s everything we talked about today:
NPR Marketplace
June 23, 2023
And then there’s the issue of affordable child care. As any parent knows, child care can quickly become a family’s top expense — $1,412 a month on average for caring for an infant in California, according to the Economic Policy Institute. As a result, one parent, often a mother, is forced to choose between going to work or staying home to fulfill the family’s child care obligations.
The Hill
June 23, 2023
And then the other challenge, and this is a chart that is near and dear to the president’s heart. OK, near and dear is a weird way to describe a chart, also a grumpy chart, but I will say that one of the things, and this is I’ve known the, I’ve worked with the president a little bit before this campaign and over the years and this chart, which I think of as the Economic Policy Institute special, so Larry Mishel, if you’re watching, I did say that, but this chart shows the gap between productivity and wages over time
Berkeley News
June 23, 2023
Landing in the top 10% is a fairly attainable goal for upwardly mobile Americans. A study by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) found that the average earnings of those in the top 10% were roughly $173,000 in 2020.
MoneyWise
June 23, 2023