Workers’ wages have lagged productivity for decades, as the Economic Policy Institute has faithfully reported. This is because employers have power to set wages. They aren’t the passive agents you learned about in baby economics class operating on a knife edge to keep prices at a minimum and forced to pay market wages.
Forbes
April 13, 2023
Workers’ wages have lagged productivity for decades, as the Economic Policy Institute has faithfully reported. This is because employers have power to set wages. They aren’t the passive agents you learned about in baby economics class operating on a knife edge to keep prices at a minimum and forced to pay market wages.
Forbes
April 13, 2023
A 2021 report by the Economic Policy Institute think tank reported that the decline in unionization has translated to a loss of earnings equivalent to $3,250 for a median full time worker.
VICE
April 13, 2023
Amid ongoing layoffs, the top 30 H-1B visa employers hired 34,000 new workers in 2022 and laid off at least 85,000 workers in 2022 and early 2023, an Economic Policy Institute (EPI) analysis found.
The Economic Times
April 13, 2023
Workers’ wages have lagged productivity for decades, as the Economic Policy Institute has faithfully reported. This is because employers have power to set wages. They aren’t the passive agents you learned about in baby economics class operating on a knife edge to keep prices at a minimum and forced to pay market wages.
Forbes
April 13, 2023
According to the Economic Policy Institute, 19 percent of black households have zero or negative net worth. Just 9 percent of white families are that poor. Today’s racial wealth gap is perhaps the most glaring legacy of American slavery and the violent economic dispossession that followed.
Thegrio.com
April 7, 2023
Also, the Economic Policy Institute estimates an investment that caps child care expenditures at 10 percent of a family’s income could increase women’s workforce participation enough to boost America’s GDP by about $210 billion.
The Hill
April 7, 2023
Teen Vogue
April 7, 2023
“It’s bizarre they’re happening at the same time because when we see an uptick in child labor, logically, that should be when we actually strengthen our laws and try to think about what we can do to protect children,” Gerstein, a fellow at the Center for Labor and a Just Economy at Harvard Law School and the Economic Policy Institute, said on Boston Public Radio.
WGBH
April 7, 2023
USCIS routinely releases extra visas to meet demand, but the H-2B visa program has faced some scrutiny of late. An August report from the Economic Policy Institute found that industries that employ H-2B visa workers accounted for nearly $1.8 billion in wage and hour violations during the past two decades — meaning the program could be exploiting the migrant workers it serves, as well as the U.S. citizens they work beside.
HR Dive
April 7, 2023