The legislation is also supported by organizations, including: The National Immigration Law Center (NILC); Jobs with Justice; Economic Policy Institute; National Employment Law Project (NELP); Tulane Immigrant Rights Clinic; AFL-CIO; and SEIU.
Office of Congressman Bobby Scott
March 31, 2023
In a September survey from Bankrate.com, more than half of respondents said that their incomes hadn’t kept up with rising household expenses amid persistent high inflation. A report from the Economic Policy Institute, meanwhile, found that, as of June 2022, 14% of gig workers in the U.S. earned less than the federal minimum wage and that 26% earned less than $10 per hour.
Tech Crunch
March 31, 2023
The upshot is that about 85% of U.S. workers today make $15 an hour or more, according to the Economic Policy Institute. When the Fight for $15 was getting off the ground, fewer than 60% did.
Fast Company
March 31, 2023
According to the Economic Policy Institute’s company wage track, 57% of Dollar General employees made less than $12/hour in 2022.
FOX 13
March 31, 2023
The presence of unions may also signal support for, and provides organizing around, other state policies that benefit workers, said David Kemper, the senior state policy coordinator at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank that supports unions. In general, right-to-work states scored lower on a number of issues, from wages to workplace safety conditions to political participation, according to a report by Illinois Economic Policy Institute. and the Project for Middle Class Renewal at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
FiveThirtyEight
March 31, 2023
The Economic Policy Institute found that a year of infant care can cost Wisconsinites more than tuition at a public college. Families have started to plan pregnancies around the availability of care, as they encounter years-long wait lists at child care centers.
Wisconsin Watch
March 31, 2023
That second assertion, sadly, is on the money. As a recent survey by the Economic Policy Institute demonstrated, teacher pay has been falling relative to the pay of other college graduates since 1979.
American Prospect
March 31, 2023
And yet, the rich continue to grow richer. According to a report by the Economic Policy Institute, CEOs now make 400 times more than the average worker. The Gini coefficient, a measurement of inequality, has risen from 0.353 in 1974 to 0.494 in 2021. The top one percent of the United States held 27% of the nation’s wealth in 2021, a higher share than the middle 60% of households by income.
People's Dispatch
March 31, 2023
In just the last year, the number of children employed in violation of child labor laws increased 37%, according to the Economic Policy Institute. (paywall).
The Guardian
March 31, 2023
Though a majority of Americans support unions, just a small fraction of workers—about 12%—are actually in one. Labor experts say one reason for that discrepancy has to do with the efforts companies have made to fight or derail union organizing. And all those efforts have come at a hefty cost: Employers spend more than $400 million a year on “union-avoidance consultants,” according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Fast Company
March 31, 2023