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State of Working America Wages 2018: Wage inequality marches on—and is even threatening data reliability
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America’s slow-motion wage crisis: Four decades of slow and unequal growth
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“Women’s work” and the gender pay gap: How discrimination, societal norms, and other forces affect women’s occupational choices—and their pay
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Our deeply broken labor market needs a higher minimum wage: EPI testimony for the Senate Budget Committee
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Chump change: The Romney–Cotton minimum wage proposal leaves 27 million workers without a pay increase
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EPI comments on the proposed delay of effective date for the Independent Contractor Rule
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EPI testimony on increasing the minimum wage to $15 per hour
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EPI comments on the proposed delay of effective date for the Tip Rule
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Economists in support of a federal minimum wage of $15 by 2025
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CBO analysis confirms that a $15 minimum wage raises earnings of low-wage workers, reduces inequality, and has significant and direct fiscal effects: Large progressive redistribution of income caused by higher minimum wage leads to significant and cross-cutting fiscal effects
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A $15 minimum wage would have significant and direct effects on the federal budget
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News from EPI › EPI applauds the introduction of the Raise the Wage Act: 32 million U.S. workers would benefit from a $15 federal minimum wage
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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
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News from EPI › President-elect Biden’s relief and recovery proposal would be a lifeline to workers and their families
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Twenty states raised their minimum wages on New Year’s Day: Federal action is still needed
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News from EPI › Trump administration finalizes regulation that will cost tipped workers more than $700 million annually
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Wages for the top 1% skyrocketed 160% since 1979 while the share of wages for the bottom 90% shrunk: Time to remake wage pattern with economic policies that generate robust wage-growth for vast majority
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Voters chose more than just the president: A review of important state ballot initiative outcomes
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Teacher Compensation Penalty: Impact on teachers, education, and society
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The first big gash of austerity: The cutback to the $600 boost to unemployment benefits reduced personal income by $667 billion (annualized) in August
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Preempting progress: State interference in local policymaking prevents people of color, women, and low-income workers from making ends meet in the South
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Household income gains welcome in 2019 Census data, but may not be as strong as they first appear
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Racial disparities in income and poverty remain largely unchanged amid strong income growth in 2019
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News from EPI › Income gains from 2019 Census report illustrate the importance of getting closer to full employment during the recovery
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Raising the minimum wage to $15 by 2025 will restore bargaining power to workers during the recovery from the pandemic
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What to watch for in the 2019 Census data on earnings, incomes, and poverty
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Latinx workers—particularly women—face devastating job losses in the COVID-19 recession
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Now is still a good time to raise the minimum wage
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The System—Who Rigged It, How We Fix It: With former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich
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H-1B visas and prevailing wage levels: A majority of H-1B employers—including major U.S. tech firms—use the program to pay migrant workers well below market wages
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Low-wage workers saw the biggest wage growth in states that increased their minimum wage between 2018 and 2019