Now some governments have been cashing in on that — while others are still sitting on billions. The left-leaning Economic Policy Institute found that as of October, states and Washington, DC, had spent just 38% of the funds and local governments had spent about 27% of their allocations. States have until 2024 to allocate their funds, then have to spend them by 2026. If they don’t, they’ll lose the money.
Business Insider
April 28, 2023
A 2019 study by the Economic Policy Institute found that roughly half of private-sector businesses make workers sign non-competes. That translates to tens of millions of workers who are contractually prohibited from going to work for a rival company once they leave their current company. Critics say these agreements have been overused–keeping lower wage workers in fields such as fast-food, hairdressing, and house cleaning from earning a living. Critics further argue non-competes keep all wages low.
Connecticut Public Radio
April 28, 2023
As Vox pointed out when the bill passed, AB 5 meant that millions of workers, including Uber drivers, janitors, and hotel housekeepers, would receive “basic labor rights” such as “overtime pay and unemployment benefits.” Misclassification is a big problem for workers and unions alike. In California alone, a 2017 audit of 8,000 businesses found that “nearly half a million employees had been misclassified or otherwise left off payrolls,” Vox added. That severely restricts the rights a worker can expect on the job. “Most federal and state labor and employment protections are granted to employees only, not independent contractors,” explained the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute in 2019.
New York Magazine
April 28, 2023
The Economic Policy Institute reports the average cost of infant care in Utah is $829 per month or $9,945 annually. In some cases, parents have changed their work schedules or even quit to make ends meet.
FOX 13
April 28, 2023
Pichai’s package is 808 times larger than the median Alphabet employee pay in 2022, which was $279,802. (The year prior, without the stock award, the ratio was 21-to-1.) CEOs’ annual compensation packages have dramatically outstripped the growth of employee pay over recent decades, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
SF Gate
April 28, 2023
Research from the Economic Policy Institute found approximately 217,000 minimum wage earners in Ohio are victims of wage theft each year, each missing out on an average of $2,800 in underpaid salaries. Misclassifying workers has an even greater economic impact, research showed, costing the state about $180 million in income taxes.
Governing
April 28, 2023
But in a report released last month, the Economic Policy Institute argues that the decline in teenage employment is a positive development, since it largely reflects the fact that more teenagers are staying in school. Of the 16- to 19-year-olds who said they were not working in 2021, 58.1% said it was because they were in school — up 21 percentage points compared with 2001.
Pew Charitable Trust
April 28, 2023
Pay is also a big part of the problem keeping teachers. DiMauro pointed to an Economic Policy Institute study that showed weekly wages for educators had remained “relatively flat” since 1996.
Ohio Capital Journal
April 28, 2023
A study by the Economic Policy Institute in the U.S found corporate profits were the biggest driver of inflation, rising from a 13 per cent contribution in normal times to around 33 per cent since the second quarter of 2020.
Herald Scotland
April 28, 2023
The H-2B program is not without controversy. The Economic Policy Institute, a worker advocacy research group, has argued that the program exploits migrant workers and U.S. citizens who work alongside them.
HR Dive
April 28, 2023