“I don’t think these things like meditation or whatever employers may be doing to increase well-being are bad initiatives,” said Heidi Shierholz, president of the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank. “But they do not substitute for decent wages, decent benefits, sane scheduling.”
New York Times
May 20, 2022
In April, the unemployment rate in the U.S. stood at 3.2% for white Americans and 5.9% for Black Americans.
“The ongoing COVID-19 crisis continues to highlight the many layers of racial inequality in the U.S. labor market,” Valerie Wilson, director of the Economic Policy Institute’s Program on Race, Ethnicity & the Economy, told a congressional committee in January.
“In contrast to the nearly uniform rise in unemployment rates between February and April 2020, since that time, the white unemployment rate has fallen fastest,” she said.
Crain’s Chicago Business
May 20, 2022
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A leaked draft of a majority opinion authored by Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito strongly suggests that the court will rule to overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the two landmark cases that have upheld the right to an abortion nationwide for the last half century. If the final ruling largely follows what is sketched out in the leaked draft, abortion services will be drastically curtailed, if not outright banned, in over half the country.
In These Times
May 20, 2022
The benefit of unions is clear. According to a recent Economic Policy Institute report, “union workers are paid 11.2% more and have greater access to …(paywall).
Detroit News
May 20, 2022
Terri Gerstein is the director of the State and Local Enforcement Project at the Harvard Labor and Worklife Program and a senior fellow at the Economic Policy Institute. She was previously the Labor Bureau chief in the New York State Attorney General’s Office.
NBC Think
May 20, 2022
They cited a study from the Economic Policy Institute, a left-wing think-tank, … (paywall).
The Economist
May 20, 2022
“Corporate boards running America’s largest public firms are giving top executives outsize compensation packages that have grown much faster than the stock market and the pay of typical workers, college graduates, and even the top 0.1%,” the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute said in a report last August.
The Street
May 20, 2022
They all spoke about the importance of equity while acknowledging the systemic challenges they’ve faced in that pursuit. The Economic Policy Institute, and other sources tracking job data, say Black unemployment in California remains higher than the statewide average. At the state level, the California Labor & Workforce Development Agency wants regional offices to maintain some independence to help encourage participation from the Black community.
EurWeb
May 20, 2022
According to the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank, a family of four – two adults and two children – can expect to pay an estimated $15,031 on housing in 2022. This amount varies across the country, however, from state to state and city to city.
The Center Square
May 20, 2022
Forces on both sides worked around the clock to pressure the administration. When the liberal Economic Policy Institute heard that the Labor Department was considering only modest increases to the salary threshold, Ross Eisenbrey, a vice president at EPI, told The Washington Post, “We raised a ruckus.” The Labor Department agreed to raise it higher.
Fast Company
May 20, 2022