A recent report by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) points out that the official number of unemployed is miscounted in the best of years, made far worse in the age of COVID-19. The methodology itself is skewed. Issues such as overlooking individuals more likely to be unemployed than those included in final calculations lead to an official unemployment rate that was off by 1.5 percentage points at the beginning of 2020.
Mint Press News
January 27, 2021
The Biden Administration is under the false delusion that these international students are the best and brightest in the world, so deserve to stay here permanently. Research by the [left-wing] Economic Policy Institute shows that the majority of these students are not the best and brightest, and are entering low-ranked US universities with low entrance requirements [to get work permit]. Universities profit because international students pay full freight tuition, while American students are graduating with immense student loan debt and having to now compete with OPT work-permit holders.
Breitbart
January 27, 2021
Nearly 32 million Americans would earn more under President Joe Biden’s proposal to more than double the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, according to calculations by the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank.
MSN
January 27, 2021
A study by the Economic Policy Institute found that the Raise the Wage Act would deliver about $3,500 annually for year-round Black and Brown workers.
- A $15 federal minimum wage would benefit 31% of Black workers and 26% of Latinos.
- Almost one in four (23%) of those who would benefit is a Black or Latina woman.
QCityMetro
January 27, 2021
The Raise the Wage Act of 2021 would increase the federal minimum wage to $15 in five steps over the next four years. Beginning in 2026, the federal minimum wage would be indexed to median wage growth. According to an independent analysis conducted by the Economic Policy Institute, the Raise the Wage Act would increase wages for nearly 32 million Americans, including roughly a third of all Black workers and a quarter of all Latino workers.
Western Slope Now
January 27, 2021
- The most recent analysis from the Economic Policy Institute found that increasing the minimum wage to $15 by 2025 would generate $107 billion in higher wages. Their earlier analysis indicates that an increase from $7.25 to $9.80 per hour between 2012 and 2014 would have generated “approximately 100,000 new jobs.”
Center for American Progress
January 27, 2021
According to an independent analysis by the Economic Policy Institute, the Raise the Wage Act would increase wages for nearly 32 million Americans, including roughly a third of all Black workers and a quarter of all Latino workers.
WDTN-TV
January 27, 2021
The left-leaning Economic Policy Institute estimates that weekly wages for men not enrolled in a union would be $52 higher today if union representation had remained at its 1979 level. That’s $2,074 a year. For women, that would mean a $13.80 increase in weekly wages, or $745 a year.
Bangor Daily News
January 27, 2021
“Even if there were not a pandemic, it’s well overdue,” said economist Ben Zipperer of the Economic Policy Institute.
Opponents argue that raising the minimum wage would hurt businesses and force job cuts. The Congressional Budget Office estimated in 2019 it could lead to the loss of 1.3 million jobs.
“Those kinds of scare stories are theoretically possible, but they don’t actually play out in the data,” said Zipperer.
CBS News
January 27, 2021