The measure nullifies clauses in employment contracts of more than 60 million workers nationwide, according to a report published by the Economic Policy Institute. Some 53.9% of nonunion private employers have such clauses in employment contracts, and 57.6% of the nation’s female workers are subject to such clauses, that report said.
Buffalo News
February 11, 2022
“If you ask for more money, you’re going to be taken more seriously now than you would’ve been 10 months ago when unemployment was super elevated,” said Josh Bivens, research director at the Economic Policy Institute. “Workers have more leverage now than they did in the pre-Covid labor market.”
Bloomberg
February 11, 2022
That’s concerning because nationally, workers with household incomes under $25,000 were 3.5 times as likely to miss a week of work due to COVID-19 compared to workers with household incomes of $100,000 or more, according to analysis from the Economic Policy Institute.
Cal Matters
February 11, 2022
Again, it’s not just Aspen. This spreading disparity is happening across the country, and it’s getting worse. According to data from the Economic Policy Institute, U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, as the cost of living has gone up and wages have stayed flat, it’s harder for everyone (besides the wealthiest) to get by.
Deseret News
February 11, 2022
But many families who can’t afford daycare don’t qualify for help. A single parent making $45,000 a year isn’t eligible for a state voucher, even though childcare for an infant in Massachusetts costs an average of $21,000 a year, according to the Economic Policy Institute think tank.
GBH
February 11, 2022
It costs a little over $14,000 on average a year for infant care in Virginia, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
NBC 29
February 11, 2022
As hospital policies and culture have become more aligned with big businesses, hospital executive compensation has swelled, mirroring the climb in CEO wages across all of corporate America that began in the late 1970s and continued despite the Great Recession that began in 2008. According to the Economic Policy Institute, average realized compensation of US CEOs, adjusted for inflation, grew by 105.0 percent from 2009 to 2019, while typical worker compensation increased by just 7.6 percent. Similarly, from 2005 to 2015, the average compensation of major nonprofit hospital CEOs rose by 93 percent, from $1.6 million to $3.1 million, while average hospital worker wages increased by a mere 8 percent in that decade.
Health Affairs
February 11, 2022
Economic Policy Institute Economist Monique Morrissey told the hearing in the aftermath of the pandemic part-time employment has remained significantly below pre-pandemic for seniors while full-time employment appeared essentially unchanged.
Forbes
February 11, 2022
Public schools have been struggling to fill support staff positions since the Great Recession decimated the workforce in the mid-2000s, and the pandemic has made things worse. If hiring kept pace with enrollment, public K-12 education employment today would be 8.6% higher than fall 2008 levels. Instead, it’s down 5.3%, according to a new report released last week by the Economic Policy Institute, interpreting data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Fortune
February 11, 2022
“Our models were all wrong,” says former Labor Department Chief Economist Heidi Shierholz.
Bloomberg TV
February 11, 2022