Meanwhile, a new report released recently by the Economic Policy Institute that interprets data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics suggests two reasons for why school support jobs are not rebounding: the first being that workers in those roles tend to skew older—50.4% of cafeteria workers are 50 and over—and are therefore more likely to have serious COVID-19-related health concerns, and support staff wages in public K-12 schools are below industry standards, as the median weekly wage for cafeteria workers between 2014 and 2019 was $331, while the average American worker earned $790.
Food Management
February 11, 2022
This eye-opening study by the Economic Policy Institute finds that the average family in California would have to spend over 40% of their income to pay for child care for two children.
CBS 8
February 11, 2022
On Monday, the Economic Policy Institute released a study co-authored by Sojourner that found that working-aged Americans in households earning less than $25,000 annually as of 2019 were 3.5 times as likely to report missing a week of work because of COVID-19 symptoms when compared with households earning $100,000 or more.
The Hill
February 11, 2022
In a comment filed with the NLRB this week, the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute criticized the Uber advice memo. Those drivers don’t have actual entrepreneurial opportunity because they can’t develop markets, set prices, or determine routes, EPI said.
Bloomberg Law
February 11, 2022
Monique Morrissey an economist at the Economic Policy Institute agreed that an Older Workers Bureau at the Department of Labor would be able…(paywall).
Benefits Pro
February 11, 2022
But some studies show that raising wages would benefit workers. A study by the Economic Policy Institute found that raising the federal minimum wage would have a significant impact on reducing the wage gap for women and people of color, and Labor Secretary Marty Walsh told Insider there was “no question” that hiking the wage for contractors would help solve the labor shortage by reducing quit rates.
Business Insider
February 11, 2022
Forced arbitration clauses have become increasingly common in employment contracts. According to the Economic Policy Institute, 56.2 percent of private-sector, nonunion workers are subject to forced arbitration. That means approximately 60 million workers in the United States are denied the right to have their employment cases heard by a court.
Office of Senator Dianne Feinstein
February 11, 2022
According to an analysis of DOL data by the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank, DOL’s Wage and Hour Division recovered $257.8 million in back wages for workers in fiscal year 2020, $322.5 million in fiscal year 2019, $304.9 in fiscal year 2018 and $270.4 million in fiscal year 2017. More than 1 million workers received recovered wages during this period, with an average of more than $1,000 per worker.
The Grio
February 11, 2022
According to an analysis of DOL data by the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank, DOL’s Wage and Hour Division recovered $257.8 million in back wages for workers in fiscal year 2020, $322.5 million in fiscal year 2019, $304.9 in fiscal year 2018 and $270.4 million in fiscal year 2017. More than 1 million workers received recovered wages during this period, with an average of more than $1,000 per worker.
HR Dive
February 11, 2022
Stephen Stanley, chief economist at Amherst Pierpont Securities, said the report was “a crazy mess” in some respects, but most economists agreed that the positive results reflect real gains. “I don’t think anybody would dispute that we’re moving in the right direction,” Valerie Wilson of the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute told The Washington Post.
The Fiscal Times
February 11, 2022