Search results for income inequality (1421)
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The legal ‘freedom of contract’ framework is flawed because it ignores the persistent absence of full employment
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News from EPI › EPI economist Valerie Wilson named president of the National Economic Association
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Forty organizations urge California lawmakers to pass AB257, the FAST Recovery Act
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U.S. workers have already been disempowered in the name of fighting inflation: Policymakers should not make it even worse by raising interest rates too aggressively
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John Evans
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The costs of racial and ethnic labor market discrimination and solutions that can contribute to closing employment and wage gaps: Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth
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New U.S. Treasury final rule supports state and local spending for an equitable economic recovery
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More than $3 billion in stolen wages recovered for workers between 2017 and 2020
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Unions are not only good for workers, they’re good for communities and for democracy: High unionization levels are associated with positive outcomes across multiple indicators of economic, personal, and democratic well-being
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Wage inequality continued to increase in 2020: Top 1.0% of earners see wages up 179% since 1979 while share of wages for bottom 90% hits new low
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Setting higher wages for child care and home health care workers is long overdue
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Alabama is making a costly mistake on COVID-19 recovery funds. Here’s a better path forward.
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Alt-labor’s turn toward politics and public policy to combat the exploitation of low-wage workers: Building power and ‘punching above their weight’
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Moral policy = Good economics: Lifting up poor and working-class people—and our whole economy
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Preempting progress in the heartland: State lawmakers in the Midwest prevent shared prosperity and racial, gender, and immigrant justice by interfering in local policymaking
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Erratic scheduling forces mom to choose between work and her son
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Understanding the claims about labor markets in debates on ‘Private Government‘
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Ensuring the high road in Cannabis: Legalization offers a chance to make the cannabis industry a model of good jobs—if workers are given a voice
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Black and brown workers saw the weakest wage gains over a 40-year period in which employers failed to increase wages with productivity
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‘Build Back Better’ agenda will ensure strong, stable recovery in coming years
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News from EPI › Nearly 100 organizations urge Congress to stand up to pressure from corporate lobbyists and pass President Biden’s Build Back Better plan: Letter denounces corporate lobbyists’ assault on vital programs and services supporting children and working families and combating climate change
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Growing inequalities, reflecting growing employer power, have generated a productivity–pay gap since 1979: Productivity has grown 3.5 times as much as pay for the typical worker
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Cutting unemployment insurance benefits did not boost job growth: July state jobs data show a widespread recovery
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The promise and limits of high-pressure labor markets for narrowing racial gaps
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News from EPI › AFL-CIO’s Liz Shuler appointed interim Chair of EPI’s Board of Directors following Richard Trumka’s passing
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CEO pay has skyrocketed 1,322% since 1978: CEOs were paid 351 times as much as a typical worker in 2020
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EPI comments on DOL’s draft Strategic Plan and Evidence-Building Plan
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State and local American Rescue Plan funds should be used to support an equitable recovery for workers
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Testimony before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions for a hearing on the right to organize and on empowering U.S. workers in a 21st century economy
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Care workers are deeply undervalued and underpaid: Estimating fair and equitable wages in the care sectors