And this all reminded me about a conversation I had last year with Heidi Shierholz. She’s the president of the Economic Policy Institute. And last year, we talked about this idea of retaliation against workers organizing unions. And to be clear, we’re talking about this in general, not about Tesla.
HEIDI SHIERHOLZ: It is not legal for employers to retaliate against workers for organizing. It is not legal for employers to fire workers for organizing. So that shouldn’t be happening. This should not be an issue.
NPR
February 24, 2023
An Economic Policy Institute study on “right-to-work” in 2021 in Montana found that the median hourly wage of union workers in Montana is $22.85, compared with $16.95 for nonunion workers, and nationally union workers make 11% more.
Daily Montanan
February 24, 2023
In reality, Black and Hispanic Floridians have significantly higher unemployment rates, at 4.2% and 3.1% respectively, according to the Economic Policy Institute. This disparity speaks volumes about how the effort and impact of employment programs aimed to support employment recovery are falling short.
Miami Herald
February 17, 2023
Bernstein has previously served as Executive Director of the White House Task Force on the Middle Class and as an economic advisor to President Obama; prior to his service in the Obama-Biden Administration, he was a senior economist and director of the Living Standards Program at the Economic Policy Institute.
The White House
February 17, 2023
New York also allocated funds to help undocumented workers in April 2021, and it was notable for its size — the state committed over $2 billion of its budget for an estimated 290,000 undocumented workers — and the level of compensation, which “approaches what others got in unemployment insurance,” according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Business Insider
February 17, 2023
In 2017, the U.S. aluminum industry was, in the words of a report by the Economic Policy Institute, “hanging by a thread.”
The Hill
February 17, 2023
A scenario in which congressional Republicans use the debt ceiling to enforce austerity sounds queasily familiar. The Fed cannot get involved in partisan political fights, but it certainly can — and must — be realistic about likely economic scenarios. In a more rational Washington, the Fed might able to justify leaning toward interest rate increases as it has in recent months. But in this Washington, the risk of accelerating a recession is too great. The Fed must act accordingly.
MSNBC.com
February 17, 2023
“A recent report from the Economic Policy Institute finds that 92 percent of Dollar General employees make less than $15 an hour. Twenty-two percent make less than $10 an hour,” wrote Alex Press for Jacobin in May 2022.
The Daily Dot
February 17, 2023
A study issued last year by the Economic Policy Institute claimed that 1.4 million New York City workers would see their incomes boosted next year by the Ramos plan, with 500,000 gaining in the suburbs and about 1 million statewide. The EPI numbers include those who are directly affected by the law and those who will see wages increased as employers boost pay for those somewhat above the new minimum.
The City
February 17, 2023