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Testimony

  • Raising the Delaware minimum wage to $15 by 2025 would raise wages for nearly 120,000 workers and strengthen the state’s economic recovery: Testimony of David Cooper in support of SB 15 before the Delaware Senate Labor Committee

    March 17, 2021 By David Cooper Testimony
  • Modernizing Massachusetts overtime law is critical to strengthening pay and protecting work-life balance for hundreds of thousands of Massachusetts workers: Testimony of David Cooper before the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development in support of H. 1609 and S. 1092

    June 18, 2019 By David Cooper Testimony
  • Letter to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections on federal wage and hour policies

    February 16, 2017 By Heidi Shierholz Testimony
  • H-1B Visas: Designing a Program to Meet the Needs of the U.S. Economy and U.S. Workers

    March 31, 2011 Testimony
  • EPI testimony at House hearing ‘New Jobs in Recession and Recovery: Who Are Getting Them and Who Are Not’

    March 10, 2011 By Heidi Shierholz Testimony
  • The Stimulus: two years later

    February 16, 2011 By Josh Bivens Testimony
  • The Wobbly Stool: Retirement (In)security in America

    October 7, 2010 By Ross Eisenbrey Testimony
  • Industrial policy and national security

    September 22, 2010 By Jeff Faux Testimony
  • Monetary Policy and the State of the Economy

    July 22, 2010 By Lawrence Mishel Testimony
  • An Assessment of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

    July 14, 2010 Testimony
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