Home care workers are disproportionately Black, Hispanic, Asian American Pacific Islander and immigrants, according to a June 2022 report by the Economic Policy Institute, a D.C.-based think tank.
The Keene Sentinel
May 5, 2023
Low-wage workers experienced wage growth of 9% between 2019 and 2022. That’s a historically fast real wage growth over the three-year span, especially in a period of economic inflation, according to a report from the Economic Policy Institute.
McKnight’s Senior Living
May 5, 2023
A minimum wage paycheck lost 27 percent of its purchasing power since 2009 and is now worth less in real wages than at any point in time since 1956, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Truthout
May 5, 2023
Plans to merge two of the biggest U.S. supermarket chains could blunt grocery-store workers’ bargaining power and lower their wages, according to a new analysis from the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
MarketWatch
May 5, 2023
Heidi Shierholz, the president of the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, said at the press conference that the economic impact of an increase to the federal minimum wage is one of the most-studied subjects in economics.
“The weight of that evidence shows that (when the) minimum wage increases, they raise the wages of our lowest wage-workers, they reduce inequality, they reduce poverty, they reduce child poverty, they reduce gender wage gaps, they reduce racial wage gaps because Black and brown workers, due to the broad impacts of structural racism on our labor markets, are disproportionately concentrated in the lowest-wage jobs,” Shierholz said.
New Jersey Monitor
May 4, 2023
Sanders made the announcement outside the U.S. Capitol where he was flanked by AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler, SEIU International President Mary Kay Henry, and Economic Policy Institute President Heidi Shierholz.
UPI
May 4, 2023
“Haven’t wages for low-wage workers naturally grown in the tight labor markets of the pandemic recovery?” asked Heidi Shierholz, the former chief economist for the Department of Labor.
“Yes, they have,” she said. “But so has the cost of living.”
ABC News
May 4, 2023
In 2021, the average pay for CEOs was 399 times what a typical worker made, according to an analysis of publicly available data by the Economic Policy Institute. That’s an increase of 1,460% since 1978, the left-leaning think tank said.
MarketWatch
April 28, 2023
According to a recent analysis by the Economic Policy Institute, employers spend $433m per year on union avoidance consultants to bolster employer union-busting efforts.
The Guardian
April 28, 2023