“The 2022 midterms prove that Democrats can beat Republican extremism by fighting for working people and making our democratic values clear,” Warren (D-Mass.) said at EconCon Presents, a meeting co-hosted by Demos Action, Economic Policy Institute Action, Economic Security Project Action, Groundwork Action, Omidyar Network, and Roosevelt Forward.
Common Dreams
November 18, 2022
But the reduction in supply was met with increased demand as Americans started purchasing durable goods to replace the services they used prior to the pandemic, said Josh Bivens, director of research at the Economic Policy Institute. “The pandemic put distortions on both the demand and supply side of the US economy,” Bivens said.
CNET
November 18, 2022
In deep red Nebraska, they won a state minimum wage hike to $15 an hour by 2026, up from the current $9 an hour. The National Employment Law Project and the Economic Policy Institute estimate this action will benefit about 150,000 Nebraskans.
Inequality.org
November 18, 2022
Massachusetts voters passed a “millionaires tax” at the ballot box on Election Day in an apparent reaction to the state’s growing income disparities. The Economic Policy Institute ranks the state as the sixth-worst in the country when it comes to income inequality.
Maine Beacon
November 18, 2022
Visa workers must be paid a prevailing wage, which has four tiers. But the prevailing wages allow salaries below the median wage for an occupation. A 2020 study by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a think tank in Washington, D.C., found that 60% of H-1B positions certified by the U.S. Dept. of Labor pay wage levels below the local median. Hira and Daniel Costa, director of immigration law and policy research at EPI, conducted the research.
Tech Target
November 18, 2022
That 2019 Democratic news release cited a 2015 study from the Economic Policy Institute that found that wages in Right to Work states were 3.2% lower on average than wages in states without the law.
The Center Square
November 18, 2022
That could be because 14% of workers in the US didn’t have access to sick leave as of this March, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. When it comes to low-wage employees, over 60% don’t have access to sick leave, according to a September study from the Economic Policy Institute.
Business Insider
November 18, 2022
As McDevitt noted, the telecom workforce had been shrinking for a long time before the pandemic hit. According to data analyzed by the Economic Policy Institute, the number of telecommunications employees as a percentage of the overall U.S. workforce fell from 1.4% in 1983-1986 to 1% in 2003-2006 and just 0.6% in 2016-2019. Or put another way, the number of telecom employees in the country dropped from nearly 1.4 million in 1983-1986 to just under 894,000 in 2016-2019.
Fierce Telecom
November 18, 2022
In America, the Economic Policy Institute has documented that “erosion of worker bargaining power” has led to lower wages and a “deterioration of labor’s share of income.” Only seven percent of American private sector workers are union members; in contrast, around half of German workers are covered by collective bargaining agreements.
Forbes
November 18, 2022
That brings me to the city’s 20,000-unit housing shortage. As landlords chase those higher returns, “the Airbnb effect” on the local market — as studied by the non-partisan U.S. think tank Economic Policy Institute — creates more costs than benefits.
“The costs to local renters and local jurisdictions likely exceed the benefits to travelers and property owners,” the 2019 report found.
Dallas Morning News
November 18, 2022