“Inflation is definitely blocking some of the gains that would otherwise accrue to workers stemming from today’s pretty hot labor market, and that definitely includes any raise Target is giving,” says Josh Bivens, an economist at Economic Policy Institute.
Quartz
March 4, 2022
n the last few months, pay has risen fastest in certain sectors, says Elise Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute. Areas like leisure, retail, and hospitality are “where lower-wage workers have been seeing some increases in opportunities and experienced wage growth.”
CNBC
March 4, 2022
Care for an infant can cost substantially more than for older children, figures from the Economic Policy Institute show. In California, for example, that gap is more than $5,000 a year, on average.
Bloomberg
March 4, 2022
Economic Policy Institute President Heidi Shierholz calls last year’s decline a “wakeup call to lawmakers.” Shierholz sees labor reform as essential to an equitable recovery from the pandemic.
Rochester Beacon
March 4, 2022
According to a recent report from the Economic Policy Institute, the U.S. auto sector could require an increase of over 150,000 jobs if electric vehicles rise to 50% of domestic auto sales in 2030.
Minnesota Reformer
March 4, 2022
Using data from the Economic Policy Institute, the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), GOBankingRates identified the cost of child care in each state. It also identifies the 10 states where child care is least affordable and most affordable in the context of each state’s median salary.
GO Banking Rates
March 4, 2022
An Economic Policy Institute analysis found that child care workers are paid about $13.51 per hour, nearly half of what the average U.S. worker makes, at $27.31 per hour. Child care workers are among the lowest-paid professions and are underpaid and given fewer benefits like health insurance.
The Edwardsville Intelligencer
March 4, 2022
Recent data from the Economic Policy Institute show that those with incomes under $25,000 were 3.5 times as likely to report missing an entire week of work because of COVID-19 compared with those earning $100,000 or more. Too often, workers are forced to make an impossible choice between caring for themselves and their families and earning a paycheck that they need to stay afloat.
Colorado Politics
March 4, 2022
The Economic Policy Institute’s State of Working America Data Library and the Economic Policy Institute’s Working Economics Blog (cites chart).
Truthout
March 4, 2022
Terri Gerstein is the director of the State and Local Enforcement Project at the Harvard Law School Labor and Worklife Program and a senior fellow at the Economic Policy Institute.
American Prospect
March 4, 2022
“The job losses were disproportionately happening in leisure and hospitality, and that’s where they remain,” said Elise Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute think tank.
Huffington Post
March 4, 2022
Elise Gould is a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute. Heidi Shierholz is president at the Economic Policy Institute and former chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor. The opinions expressed in this commentary are their own.
CNN Business
March 4, 2022
According to the Economic Policy Institute, less than 20% of private-sector workers are covered by a traditional pension, and the national savings rate is close to zero. This leaves most Americans financially unprepared for retirement.
Smart Union
March 3, 2022
According to the Economic Policy Institute, less than 20% of private-sector workers are covered by a traditional pension, and the national savings rate is close to zero. This leaves most Americans financially unprepared for retirement.
Smart Union
March 3, 2022
Wage theft is a multi-billion dollar problem that spans industries across the United States; according to Brotman, it dwarfs property crime costs in the country. A 2017 wage theft study from the Economic Policy Institute found that 32.3% of New York construction workers’ earned wages were not paid — the highest share out of all the industries surveyed.
Construction Dive
February 25, 2022
In such an economy, workers were able to bargain for more pay, and the costs of labor rose in tandem with the costs of other inputs, explained Josh Bivens, research director of the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
CBS
February 25, 2022
For many teachers, rather than continue to try to explain the complexities of their profession, it has become easier just to leave. A mass educator exodus and shortage will not come as a surprise to anyone who has been paying attention. A pre-pandemic study from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) indicated that teacher shortages were already becoming dire. At that time, researchers at EPI predicted that by the year 2025, the shortage could reach up to 200,000. That number was based on a pre-Covid reality, one that did not account for the recent dire working conditions in schools.
The Hechinger Report
February 25, 2022
Features Rob discussing Russia-Ukraine tensions.
Al Jazeera
February 25, 2022
First, union membership statistics don’t capture the numbers of workers who attempt to form unions through our country’s antiquated labor system, but fail when employers bend and break labor law. Employers like Amazon often use thinly veiled threats, mandatory anti-union meetings, and intimidation tactics to keep workers from forming unions. In 4 out of 10 organizing efforts, workers have to file charges to try to stop their bosses’ illegal activity, and in a third of elections, employers are charged with illegally firing union supporters, according to a recent Economic Policy Institute report. Precious few workers make it through this fraught process, and even fewer win a first contract. Those who find themselves blocked don’t “count” in the government’s statistical measures.
American Prospect
February 25, 2022
She explained that according to the Economic Policy Institute, the median weekly wage for food service workers is $331.
WTOP
February 25, 2022
internet-connected devices, according to the Economic Policy Institute … Lance Izumi, senior director at the Pacific Research Institute’s …(paywall).
The Californian
February 25, 2022
This decision was a game changer for employers. Due to the privacy of arbitration, data can be hard to come by. According to an estimate from the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, however, the share of workers subject to mandatory arbitration rose from just over 2% in 1992 to roughly one-quarter of the workforce by the early 2000s. Per the same analysis, the share of workers subject to mandatory arbitration now exceeds 55%.
HR Dive
February 25, 2022
For Black families, particularly those dealing with the weight of poverty, threatening situations are plentiful. According to the Economic Policy Institute, 64 percent of Black children have been exposed to one or more frightening or threatening experiences, while only 48 percent of white children are.
Nonprofit Quarterly
February 25, 2022
Another problem for Democrats is geography: Progressive activists form a consistent critical mass only in deep-blue cities or states — which limits their ability to win over moderate voters in other parts of the country. Universities and progressive think tanks like the Roosevelt Institute and Economic Policy Institute abound with innovative ideas about how to narrow the income gap, expand and lower the cost of health care, craft a Green New Deal, curb the power of Amazon and its corporate ilk. But their plans lie fallow without a well-organized constituency of working-class Americans that can elect enough politicians to turn them into law.
New York Times
February 25, 2022
“There’s still a long way to go,” Economic Policy Institute President Heidi Shierholz tweeted, “but we’re on track to recover from this recession eight years faster than we recovered from the Great Recession, because of our policy response.”
Inequality.org
February 25, 2022
“There’s no knob you can turn that only reduces inflation without having consequence for lots of other things we care about in the economy as well,” said Josh Bivens, Director of Research at the Economic Policy Institute.
The Tennessee Tribune
February 25, 2022
Teresa Ghilarducci is the Schwartz Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research. She’s the co-author of “Rescuing Retirement” and a member of the board of directors of the Economic Policy Institute.
Bloomberg
February 25, 2022
Here’s a state-by-state breakdown, based on data compiled by the Economic Policy Institute:
- Delaware: $9.25/hr. to $10.50/hr., 1/1/22
- Maryland: $11.75/hr. to $12.50/hr., 1/1/22
- New Jersey: $12/hr to $13/hr., 1/1/22
- New York: $12.50/hr, with index raise, to $13.20
- Ohio: $8.80/hr., with index raise starting 1/1/22
- West Virginia: $8.75/hr., no increase
Pennsylvania Capital-Star
February 25, 2022