While allotments of H-2B visas for low- and semi-skilled non-agricultural workers are increased annually, enforcement of the government’s wage and hour rules in this category has deteriorated to the point of disappearing. “The H-2B program’s wage regulations are allowing employers to legally undercut U.S. wage standards and underpay migrant workers,” Daniel Costa of the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) reported in 2021.
Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR)
February 24, 2023
Facing similiar prospects across the Pacific, a report published in April 2022 by United States Economic Policy Institute Research Director Josh Bivens echoed similar. The institute’s report details the overheating view of the economy often emphasises the fast nominal wage growth of the past year as justification for the arguments of policymakers.
Savings.com
February 24, 2023
A main cause for the widening income disparity is the huge pay gap. According to Equilar, the median income of CEOs of listed companies in 2021 was 20 million dollars, up 31 percent from 2020, while that of average employees increased from around 69,000 dollars to some 72,000 dollars, up about 4 percent. According to a study by the Economic Policy Institute, CEO pay had skyrocketed by 1,322 percent between 1978 and 2020, while typical worker compensation had risen just 18 percent.
Global Times
February 24, 2023
It’s as firms have been using the classification of “gig workers” to underpay employees as well in the last few years. A recent study from the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute (EPI) found that workers were losing out on thousands of dollars in lost pay and benefits because of it.
Business Insider
February 24, 2023
Advocates and experts also point to expanded access to no or low-cost early childhood education as a solution that not only benefits children but parents and the economy as a whole. Colorado ranks eighth in the country for most expensive child care, with an average annual cost of $15,325, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
KUNC
February 24, 2023
Sebastian Martinez Hickey, a research assistant at the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank, said wages for nursing home employees had been extremely low even before the pandemic. He said the focus needs to be on raising Medicaid reimbursement rates beyond inflationary factors.
Kaiser Health News
February 24, 2023
First, there are lessons to be learned from the prior recessions and how employees of color have fared. During the great recession, unemployment was highest among Black and hispanic employees, just as it was during every recession since ethnicity started to be tracked in the 1970s. Even when the economy bounced back, unemployment remained in the double digits for more than six years for Black employees. Moreover, according to the Economic Policy Institute, it took more than a decade for Black and Asian households to recover their prerecession median incomes.
Fast Company
February 24, 2023
The Ohio River Valley Institute says, according to the Economic Policy Institute, it costs about $58,000 for a family of three in Letcher County, KY to “attain a modest yet adequate standard of living.
WKYT
February 24, 2023
A 2022 American Federation of Teachers survey found 74% of educators dissatisfied with their job, up from 41% in 2020, and 40% said they planned to quit in the next one to two years. Teachers are also paid less than other college-educated workers and wages have remained relatively flat since 1996, the Economic Policy Institute found in August.
Forbes
February 24, 2023
Going in-depth, according to the Economic Policy Institute, families with two children in the Metro area spend an average of more than $600 a month on taxes. That data was collected using costs from 2020, so with inflation, we know that number is even greater now.
News Channel 5 Nashville
February 24, 2023