Black workers are more likely than others to be employed in frontline essential jobs, according to a June 2020 analysis by the Economic Policy Institute. Black Americans make up more than a quarter of public transit workers, nearly 20 percent of child care and social service workers, and 18 percent of trucking, warehouse and postal service workers.
PBS Newshour
February 23, 2021
But Celine McNicholas, director of government affairs and labor counsel at the Economic Policy Institute…[paywall].
Law360
February 23, 2021
24/7 Wall St. reviewed March 2018 cost of living estimates, adjusted for inflation, from financial think tank the Economic Policy Institute’s Family Budget Calculator.
24/7 Wall St.
February 23, 2021
In 2019, the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor detected millions in wage theft between fiscal years 2000 and 2019. Farm labor contractors were almost one in four of the agricultural violations found in a 14-year span, according to an analysis of the federal data from the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit research think tank.
Richmond Times-Dispatch
February 23, 2021
The wage increase could directly affect as many as 1,050,000 Michigan workers, according to analysis by the Economic Policy Institute.
Michigan Radio
February 23, 2021
Data from the Economic Policy Institute indicates that a quarter of a million West Virginians, about 14% of the population in the state, would directly benefit from a $15 minimum wage.
Those impacted workers would take home, on average, nearly $4,000 extra dollars each year, the economic policy institute estimated. The total annual wage increase for all affected West Virginia workers would be $987 million annually.
Business Insider
February 23, 2021
On Trump’s pro-growth economy policies:
“The Trump administration has taken credit for reshoring manufacturing jobs, but the data shows that isn’t true. Nearly 1,800 factories have disappeared under Trump between 2016 and 2018.”
“The U.S. real trade deficit has increased in every year since 2016, reducing GDP growth by roughly 0.25% annually over the past three years. The Trump administration’s overall weak trade agenda, COVID-19 and the administration’s mismanagement of the crisis has wiped out much of the last decade’s job gains in U.S. manufacturing.”
The Virginia Gazette
February 23, 2021
- Thomas L. Hungerford and Rebecca Thiess, “The Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit” (Washington: Economic Policy Institute, 2013), available at https://www.epi.org/publication/ib370-earned-income-tax-credit-and-the-child-tax-credit-history-purpose-goals-and-effectiveness/.
Center for American Progress
February 23, 2021
Other recent studies have found a $15 minimum wage would result in little to no job loss while boosting payroll tax revenue.
“The bottom line is that the CBO finds that the benefit to low-wage workers of raising the minimum wage far outweighs the cost,” said Heidi Shierholz, a senior economist and director of policy at left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, on a Monday call with reporters.
CNBC
February 23, 2021
“A ton of resources are wasted during a really crucial time … just having to go through this ad hoc stimulus and relief and recovery, and it just doesn’t have to be like that,” said Heidi Shierholz, a senior economist and director of policy at the Economic Policy Institute and former chief economist at the Labor Department. “We can automate things to make it so Congress could step in if they ever needed to do more relief, but it would mean that the basic structure of relief and recovery would be there already.”
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“Waiting until the very eleventh hour to extend the pandemic unemployment insurance programs, there have been millions of people who saw the lapses in benefits,” Shierholz said. “To lawmakers who have a cushion in their bank accounts and if they don’t get paid for a couple of weeks they’re fine, that is not the case for most people.”
VOX
February 23, 2021