For this article, rental prices were taken from Zillow Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:Z) and Zumper, grocery figures were taken from the Economic Policy Institute,
Insider Monkey
March 18, 2024
Advocates, including the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy and the Economic Policy Institute worried earlier versions of the bill would put kids at risk to hazardous working environments.The legislation was one of two bills lawmakers considered that would have weakened the state’s protections for young workers.
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Nina Mast, state economic analyst for the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank aimed at including the needs of low- and middle-income workers in economic policy discussions, agreed that the final version of the bill was much improved than the original version, but said not all concerns were addressed.
Mast said her main concern with the bill now is that it’s unclear and up to interpretation whether minors can work in hazardous work beyond what is outlined in the federal Fair Labor Standards Act.
“If it is not clear to advocates who have pored over multiple versions of the bill, how can we expect it to be clear to the lawmakers voting in support of it, to the employers expected to follow it, or to state agents charged with enforcing it?” Mast said.
West Virginia Watch
March 18, 2024
State and local governments can play a critical role in protecting teens from workplace injury and death amid a nationwide surge in child labor law violations, a recently published report states.
Citing data from the Department of Labor, the nonprofit think tank Economic Policy Institute and New York University’s Wagner Labor Initiative say child labor violations rose 88% between 2019 and 2023.
Safety and Health Magazine
March 18, 2024
A separate report by the Economic Policy Institute finds that Minnesota teachers make almost 30% less than comparably educated workers in other fields, a figure that’s slightly higher than the national average.
Minnesota Reformer
March 18, 2024
Education majors tend to be paid less, as well. While teachers have good job security, summers off and pensions, they’re usually paid by state governments, which have lagged in keeping wages commensurate with inflation. In recent years, the “teacher pay penalty” has gotten worse, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
CNBC
March 18, 2024
And the proposed tiered wage system only adds more confusion, argued the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank that focuses on the needs of low- and middle-income workers, in its comments on the proposal. The department could consider simply establishing that au pairs should be paid the highest of the applicable local, state and federal minimum wages, the same rule that has been established in the Summer Work Travel program, the largest J-1 visa work program.
19th News
March 18, 2024
The federal estate tax should be an effective tool to slightly level the playing field between those who inherit wealth and those who have to work for a living. It should also ensure that family dynasties who’ve amassed enormous fortunes pay their fair share in taxes.
But because policymakers have repeatedly doubled and tripled the immense sums that can be passed on before the tax kicks in, the estate tax today affects almost no one.
CNN
March 18, 2024
Advocates, including the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy and the Economic Policy Institute worried earlier versions of the bill would put kids at risk to hazardous working environments.The legislation was one of two bills lawmakers considered that would have weakened the state’s protections for young workers.
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Nina Mast, state economic analyst for the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank aimed at including the needs of low- and middle-income workers in economic policy discussions, agreed that the final version of the bill was much improved than the original version, but said not all concerns were addressed.
Mast said her main concern with the bill now is that it’s unclear and up to interpretation whether minors can work in hazardous work beyond what is outlined in the federal Fair Labor Standards Act.
“If it is not clear to advocates who have pored over multiple versions of the bill, how can we expect it to be clear to the lawmakers voting in support of it, to the employers expected to follow it, or to state agents charged with enforcing it?” Mast said.
West Virginia Watch
March 18, 2024
State and local governments can play a critical role in protecting teens from workplace injury and death amid a nationwide surge in child labor law violations, a recently published report states.
Citing data from the Department of Labor, the nonprofit think tank Economic Policy Institute and New York University’s Wagner Labor Initiative say child labor violations rose 88% between 2019 and 2023.
Safety and Health Magazine
March 18, 2024
A separate report by the Economic Policy Institute finds that Minnesota teachers make almost 30% less than comparably educated workers in other fields, a figure that’s slightly higher than the national average.
Minnesota Reformer
March 18, 2024
Education majors tend to be paid less, as well. While teachers have good job security, summers off and pensions, they’re usually paid by state governments, which have lagged in keeping wages commensurate with inflation. In recent years, the “teacher pay penalty” has gotten worse, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
CNBC
March 18, 2024
And the proposed tiered wage system only adds more confusion, argued the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank that focuses on the needs of low- and middle-income workers, in its comments on the proposal. The department could consider simply establishing that au pairs should be paid the highest of the applicable local, state and federal minimum wages, the same rule that has been established in the Summer Work Travel program, the largest J-1 visa work program.
19th News
March 18, 2024
The federal estate tax should be an effective tool to slightly level the playing field between those who inherit wealth and those who have to work for a living. It should also ensure that family dynasties who’ve amassed enormous fortunes pay their fair share in taxes.
But because policymakers have repeatedly doubled and tripled the immense sums that can be passed on before the tax kicks in, the estate tax today affects almost no one.
CNN
March 18, 2024
Union interest among younger workers is growing, says the Economic Policy Institute. Workers under 45 joined unions at the highest rate in 2023.
Voice of America
March 15, 2024
Having previously worked in a warehouse in a small town in Wisconsin that was also unionizing, Benedict believes that this is a movement from working class people across generations. A report from the think tank the Economic Policy Institute found that major strike activity skytocked by 280% last year.
Fortune
March 15, 2024
Up until the 1970s, women of color could be openly discriminated against in the hiring process and were often relegated to providing domestic service work to white families, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Business Insider
March 15, 2024
According to a study by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), the average yearly earnings of those in the top 10% of Americans were roughly $173,000 in 2020, the most recent data available.
MoneyWise
March 15, 2024
A June 2022 report by the Economic Policy Institute found that nearly a third of gig workers reported earnings less than the minimum wage in their respective states.
Fox Business
March 15, 2024
According to the Economic Policy Institute, there are about 2.4 million farmworkers across the U.S., and while the Fair Food Program has helped countless farmworkers to date, there are far more who don’t yet have the same protections.
Fast Company
March 15, 2024
Moreover, according to the Economic Policy Institute, the share of prime-age (ages 25-54) employment-to-population ratio (EPOP) for U.S.-born individuals was 81.4 percent in 2023, up from 80.7 percent in 2019 — for its highest rate since 2001. Indeed, native-born workers have gained more than 6 million jobs during Biden’s presidency — as have foreign-born workers.
Washington Post
March 15, 2024
And not only that: an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute found that the gender pay gap even widens with education levels, ranging from 20 percent for workers without a high school diploma to 30 percent for those with an advanced degree.
Statista
March 15, 2024
Richard Rothstein, a distinguished fellow at the Economic Policy Institute, wrote in his 2017 book “The Color of Law” that the federal interstate highway system was a prime example of a transportation project used to segregate or destroy Black neighborhoods in the 1940s.
Courthouse News Service
March 15, 2024
In 2023, women earned, on average, 21.8% less than men, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Word in Black
March 15, 2024
“Nominal wage growth continues to moderate,” Elise Gould, economist with the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning Washington think tank, wrote in an analysis.
“Private-sector wage growth rose by a modest 1.8 percent over the month, annualized. The three-month change came in at 4.0 percent, annualized, consistent with inflation and productivity growth. Fed take note: this is not an overheating labor market.”
The Hill
March 15, 2024
Ninety-two percent of Dollar General workers make less than $15 an hour, according to a wage tracker from the Economic Policy Institute. That’s compared to 80% at Big Lots, 51% at Walmart and 3% at Target making under $15.
13 News Now
March 15, 2024
Some economists have pointed out that these high profits during the economic recovery are nothing like the profits businesses have made in past economic cycles. Chief economist at the Economic Policy Institute, Josh Bivens, explained in 2022 that, “Evidence from the past 40 years suggests strongly that profit margins should shrink…”
States Newsroom
March 15, 2024
Currently, just seven states have laws that restrict or prohibit public sector collective bargaining, said Jennifer Sherer, director of the State Worker Power Initiative at the Economic Policy Institute. The last several years have seen a number of efforts in conservative states to roll back public employees’ ability to organize or bargain.
“Over the past decade, we have seen repeated politically motivated attacks on public sector employees in states where Republicans have majorities in the legislature,” she said. “This introduces all kinds of unfairness and unevenness into our labor markets and into our economy.”
Verite News
March 15, 2024
According to an Economic Policy Institute analysis of federal data, about 50% of the labor market’s recent growth came from foreign-born workers between January 2023 and January 2024.
Scripps news
March 15, 2024
The Economic Policy Institute found that significantly fewer restrictive voting laws have been passed in the 17 highest-union-density states than in the rest of the country. (Consider that 70 percent of low-union-density states passed at least one voter suppression law between 2011 and 2019.)
Nonprofit Quarterly
March 15, 2024