According to the Economic Policy Institute, autoworker wages have fallen 19.3% since 2008 alone — due in large part to past concessions made by the UAW.
Detroit Free Press
October 11, 2023
In 2022, Dollar General became the first major retailer deemed a “severe violator” of federal workplace safety law, and has failed hundreds of government inspections. In addition to limited access to sick leave, most Dollar General employees make less than $12 an hour, and close to 1 in 4 make less than $10, according to an Economic Policy Institute study from 2021.
Bloomberg
October 11, 2023
Lack of standards has real ramifications. According to the Economic Policy Institute, domestic workers are three times as likely to live in poverty than other workers–typical wages for a domestic worker were $12.02/hour; for a non-domestic worker, $19.97. And 39 percent of nannies live twice below the poverty level; for non-domestic workers, the twice-poverty rate is 17 percent.
Marie Claire
October 6, 2023
The bill could worsen graduation rates and hurt lower-income families, experts said, and could also be a way to replace some immigrant labor as Florida and other GOP-led states continue to crack down on undocumented workers.
“Are we willing to return to a world where we accept that children of the poorest families are working more than full-time jobs under hazardous conditions?” said Jennifer Sherer, director of the Economic Analysis and Research Network at the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute.
Orlando Sentinel
October 6, 2023
Don’t worry — it’s still plenty to sustain a growing economy, said Elise Gould at the Economic Policy Institute.
“When we see job growth in excess of around 100,000, that means that not only are we keeping up with population growth, we’re pulling people in off the sidelines,” Gould said.
Gould sees a job market returning pretty close to pre-pandemic normal.
“The share of workers between 25 and 54 with a job is now at or higher than before, particularly for women. We have very low Black unemployment. So there are many metrics that look very much like 2019 — and even better.”
Marketplace
October 6, 2023
The “teacher pay penalty” — the gap between the wages of teachers and similarly educated professionals — hit a record high of 26.4% in 2022, according to an Economic Policy Institute report released Friday, as K-12 Dive reported.
EdSource
October 6, 2023
(That’s despite an increase in union representation; according to the Economic Policy Institute, in 2022, more than 16 million workers in the U.S. were represented by a union, an increase of 200,000 from 2021. While more jobs were unionized, nonunion jobs have been added to the economy at a faster rate.)
The Detroit Metro Times
October 6, 2023
As of 2021, childcare workers were making just $13.51 an hour, reportedly half of what the average worker in the U.S. earns, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Fast Company
October 6, 2023
This “teacher pay penalty” has grown over the decades, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, hitting a new high in 2021. In 1996, teachers made close to 92 cents on the dollar.
USA Today
October 6, 2023
The “teacher pay penalty” — a measure of the gap between the weekly wages of teachers and similarly educated professionals — hit a record high of 26.4% in 2022, according to an Economic Policy Institute report released Friday.
K-12 Dive
October 6, 2023
It’s been a hell of a few years for American automakers; profits have been good, very good. Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis have made $250 billion since 2013, with another $32 billion on the way by the end of the year according to Economic Policy Institute. But there are dark clouds gathering for the Big 3 just beyond the smooth seas of profit; the student loan debt crisis.
Yahoo Autos
October 6, 2023
The Economic Policy Institute, a pro-labor research and policy think tank, describes wage theft as a “widespread epidemic that costs workers, their families, and communities billions of dollars each year.”
Orlando Weekly
October 6, 2023
The cost to low-wage workers is staggering. In St. Louis, for example, the city passed a higher minimum-wage ordinance in 2015, only to have it nullified by state law two years later. As a result, minimum-wage workers were robbed of $71.1 million in raises in a single year, according to figures compiled by the Economic Policy Institute.
The American Prospect
October 6, 2023
Underyling that legal dispute is a battle over Meta’s hiring practices and whether the technology giant illegally prefers to hire temporary foreign workers. Meta was one of the top H-1B employers in fiscal year 2022, with more than 1,500 approved petitions for new workers, according to an analysis from the Economic Policy Institute.
Bloomberg Law
October 6, 2023
Moreover, an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute — a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank — of Bureau of Labor Statistics and National Labor Relations Board data found union membership in the United States increased from 2021 to 2022 by more than 200,000 workers.
Detroit Free Press
October 6, 2023
A report from the Economic Policy Institute found that in 2022 CEOs were paid 344 times as much as a typical worker. For context, in 1965 CEOs were paid 21 times as much as a typical worker. This rise in pay isn’t a result of CEO productivity, according to the report, but rather a reflection of the influence CEOs have over determining their pay through increased bargaining power.
Cleveland Scene
October 6, 2023
The pandemic seems to have exacerbated an existing decline. This is partly due to the pay discrepancy teachers face compared to their college-educated peers. According to a 2021 report by the Economic Policy Institute, teachers earn an average of 23.5% less than comparable college graduates.
Napa Valley Register
October 6, 2023
“What the tangible effect of it is for the average middle-class person is if you live in a right-to-work state you make, on average, $10,000 less every single year,” Nichols said.
Various other studies have come up with other figures, including one by the Economic Policy Institute that pegs the differential at closer to $7,000. And it also is true that the average wage in Arizona is about $2 an hour less than the national average.
Arizona Capitol Times
October 6, 2023
A 2023 analysis by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) finds that US auto industry jobs could rise by 150,000 if battery electric vehicles sales reach 50% by then and the vehicle market share of US-assembled vehicles increases to 60% from today’s 50%.
Clean Technica
October 6, 2023
Public school teachers have long made less money than other professionals, but last year the gap hit its widest level since 1960, according to a new analysis of federal data.
Why it matters: The report from the Economic Policy Institute helps explain why the nationwide teacher shortage has grown so acute.
Zoom in: The immediate culprit is inflation, which eroded teachers’ real pay considerably in 2022.
- The earnings of other college grads managed to just about keep pace with price increases, writes the report’s author, economist Sylvia Allegretto.
- Public schools are less nimble when it comes to raising pay than the private sector.
Of note: Teachers typically receive better benefits than other workers (pensions!). In her analysis, Allegretto calculated that even considering the value of those benefits, teachers still earn about 17% less.
Axios
October 6, 2023
It doesn’t consider offsets from battery manufacturing jobs. The left-leaning Economic Policy Institute has estimated a loss of 75,000 jobs with EVs making up half of U.S. vehicle sales by 2030 — without efforts to offset such losses. “These losses would stem from policy failures that stunted investment in domestic capacity of U.S. producers to build the batteries and drivetrains of BEVs [battery electric vehicles], and from a failure to regain market share in overall vehicle sales,” said EPI, which is partly funded by labor unions.
FactCheck.org
October 6, 2023
The gap between employees and chief executives can be exorbitant. In some of the country’s largest firms, CEOs made 399 times more than the typical worker, according to research from the Economic Policy Institute. Thus, founders should ensure they’re offering reasonable salaries that encourage the best results from their team–and don’t engender resentment.
Inc.
October 6, 2023
According to the Economic Policy Institute, under a wealth-based admissions strategy, the sheer numbers of eligible Black students who would benefit would remain a relatively small minority of total enrollment.
The Progressive
October 6, 2023
Going one step further, the International Monetary Fund linked corporate profits to 40% of price inflation while the Economic Policy Institute documented over 50%.
Forbes
October 6, 2023
These dramatic increases were “the direct result of the policy choice to allow pandemic-era relief programs like the Child Tax Credit to expire,” said Economic Policy Institute researchers Kyle K. Moore and Adewale A. Maye in a recent report.
Capital & Main
October 6, 2023
According to the Economic Policy Institute, PLAs – otherwise known as Community Workforce Agreements – are effective mechanisms for controlling construction costs, ensuring efficient completion of projects, and establishing fair wages and benefits for all workers. PLAs also help ensure worker health and safety protections while providing a unique opportunity for workforce development.
Afro News
October 6, 2023
In the same time period that donations of corporate pretax profits have shrunk, executive salaries have skyrocketed. The CEO-to-worker compensation ratio reached 399 to 1 in 2021, a new high, according to a report from the Economic Policy Institute. That’s up from 59 to 1 in 1989, the report found.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
October 6, 2023
According to the Economic Policy Institute, Union membership was at its highest in 1945, just after World War II was ending, the percentage of national workers represented by Union today is down to about 10%. Yet public support for labor unions is at its highest since 1965 with over two thirds of Americans supporting them. Unions are proven to reduce income inequality and get workers better wages and benefits. Is it possible we’ll see a resurgence?
USA Today
October 6, 2023
One of every four Dollar General employees makes less than $10 an hour, over half under $12, notes an Economic Policy Institute study of 2021 survey data. Even notoriously low-wage Walmart was paying workers, that same year, at least $12 an hour.
Inequality.org
October 6, 2023
When hiring picked up later that year, low-wage workers — like those in restaurants and hotels — had more bargaining power at the individual level, said Elise Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute. As a result, wages began to grow.
“Low-wage growth between 2019 and 2022 [was] much faster than any other business cycle that we’ve had in the U.S.,” Gould said.
Restaurant Dive
October 6, 2023