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• Why the U.S. needs a $15 minimum wage: How the Raise the Wage Act would benefit U.S. workers and their families

  January 26, 2021 Fact Sheet

• Explaining the erosion of private-sector unions: How corporate practices and legal changes have undercut the ability of workers to organize and bargain

  November 18, 2020 By Lawrence Mishel, Lynn Rhinehart, and Lane Windham

• Fact-checking resources for the 2020 presidential debates

  October 22, 2020 By Kayla Blado Blog

• Power and politics in the U.S. workplace: What imbalances of workplace power mean for civic engagement—and democracy

  October 7, 2020 By Alexander Hertel-Fernandez

• Decades of slow wage growth for telecommunications workers

  October 5, 2020 By John Schmitt and Jori Kandra Report

• Teacher pay penalty dips but persists in 2019: Public school teachers earn about 20% less in weekly wages than nonteacher college graduates

  September 17, 2020 By Sylvia Allegretto and Lawrence Mishel Report

• Latinx workers—particularly women—face devastating job losses in the COVID-19 recession

  August 20, 2020 By Elise Gould, Daniel Perez, and Valerie Wilson Report

• CEO compensation surged 14% in 2019 to $21.3 million: CEOs now earn 320 times as much as a typical worker

  August 18, 2020 By Lawrence Mishel and Jori Kandra Report

• Fear at work: An inside account of how employers threaten, intimidate, and harass workers to stop them from exercising their right to collective bargaining

  July 23, 2020 By Gordon Lafer and Lola Loustaunau Report

• Inequities exposed: How COVID-19 widened racial inequities in education, health, and the workforce: Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor

  June 22, 2020 By Valerie Wilson Testimony

• A majority of workers are fearful of coronavirus infections at work, especially Black, Hispanic, and low- and middle-income workers: Those facing risks are not proportionately receiving extra compensation

  June 16, 2020 By Peter Dorman and Lawrence Mishel Report

• Black workers face two of the most lethal preexisting conditions for coronavirus—racism and economic inequality

  June 1, 2020 By Elise Gould and Valerie Wilson Report

• Domestic Workers Chartbook: A comprehensive look at the demographics, wages, benefits, and poverty rates of the professionals who care for our family members and clean our homes

  May 14, 2020 By Julia Wolfe, Jori Kandra, Lora Engdahl, and Heidi Shierholz Report

• Fundamental health reform like ‘Medicare for All’ would help the labor market: Job loss claims are misleading, and substantial boosts to job quality are often overlooked

  March 5, 2020 By Josh Bivens Report

• Black-white wage gaps are worse today than in 2000

  February 27, 2020 By Elise Gould Blog

• Part-time workers pay a big-time penalty: Hourly wages-and-benefits penalties for part-time work are largest for those seeking full-time jobs and for men, but affect more women

  February 27, 2020 By Lonnie Golden Report

• News from EPI › Wage inequality continues to rise as racial and gender disparities persist: 2019 data reveal slow, uneven, and unequal wage growth over the last 40 years

  February 20, 2020 Press Releases

• The number of workers represented by a union held steady in 2019, while union membership fell

  January 22, 2020 By Heidi Shierholz Report

• Uber drivers are not entrepreneurs: NLRB General Counsel ignores the realities of driving for Uber

  September 20, 2019 By Lawrence Mishel and Celine McNicholas Report

• Black workers endure persistent racial disparities in employment outcomes

  August 27, 2019 By Jhacova Williams and Valerie Wilson Report

• CEO compensation has grown 940% since 1978: Typical worker compensation has risen only 12% during that time

  August 14, 2019 By Lawrence Mishel and Julia Wolfe Report

• Breaking the silence on early child care and education costs: A values-based budget for children, parents, and teachers in California

  July 23, 2019 By Elise Gould, Marcy Whitebook, Zane Mokhiber, and Lea J.E. Austin Report

• Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 by 2025 would lift wages for over 33 million workers

  July 17, 2019 By David Cooper Fact Sheet

• Building the movement for workers’ rights and wages: EPI’s accomplishments in 2018

• Class of 2019: High school edition

  June 6, 2019 By Elise Gould, Julia Wolfe, and Zane Mokhiber Report

• Class of 2019: College edition

  May 14, 2019 By Elise Gould, Zane Mokhiber, and Julia Wolfe Report

• Teacher wage and compensation penalty methodology

  April 24, 2019 By Sylvia Allegretto and Lawrence Mishel

• The teacher weekly wage penalty hit 21.4 percent in 2018, a record high: Trends in the teacher wage and compensation penalties through 2018

  April 24, 2019 By Sylvia Allegretto and Lawrence Mishel Report

• EPI comments regarding SNAP work requirements

  April 2, 2019 By Josh Bivens and Monique Morrissey Public Comments

• Decades of rising economic inequality in the U.S.: Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee

  March 27, 2019 By Elise Gould Testimony