As You Sow further noted that CEOs’ pay gains are much higher in an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute.
Think Advisor
March 25, 2022
In Massachusetts, the state where Marx worked at the time, employers are now no longer allowed to present employees with non-competes agreements after they have already accepted a job offer. But states have wildly different levels of regulation around non-competes and across the country as a whole they are quite common. Around 50 percent of employers ask their employees to sign non-competes, with some variation across different industries and wage levels, according to a 2019 Economic Policy Institute report.
Bulitin
March 25, 2022
Features Elise discussing the gender pay gap.
WBAI New York
March 25, 2022
But already, the $15 minimum wage is soon to be less than what most workers need to sustain themselves. According to a new family budget calculator by the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank, a full-time worker in the U.S. county with the lowest cost of living, Orangeburg in South Carolina, would need to earn $14.50 an hour.
The 19th
March 25, 2022
Monique Morrissey, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) who has closely studied the USPS for years, shared with me in a recent interview that she too was initially suspicious of the reform bill. Usually broad support “signals something that’s weak or ineffectual, or even bad,” she said. “Not in this case.”
LA Progressive
March 25, 2022
According to an Economic Policy Institute report, preemption is a policy tactic more prevalent in the South and rooted in racist policymaking that prevents people of color and low-income families from expressing their needs. It’s been particularly effective in its use against workers, stopping a raise in the minimum wage in Birmingham; paid sick leave in Dallas; and fair scheduling for retail and foodservice workers in Atlanta.
MLK 50
March 25, 2022
According to the Economic Policy Institute’s Minimum Wage Tracker, only 12 states currently have a minimum wage above $12.50. And as the price of goods and services keeps climbing, even $15 an hour isn’t good enough. EPI says a worker needs to earn at least $14.50 an hour to cover the cost of living in America’s most affordable county (Orangeburg, South Carolina). For cities like San Francisco, New York, and even Seattle, it goes as high as $23.
Fast Company
March 25, 2022
The National Bureau of Economic Research reports that in 1980, stock options were rarely included in CEO compensation. When they were a part of the compensation package, average stock options rarely made up even 20% of the total direct pay for CEOs. But today, according to Lawrence Mischel from the Economic Policy Institute, “Stock-related compensation comprises around 85% of CEO compensation.”
Business Insider
March 25, 2022
Since Takano introduced the 32-Hour Workweek Act in July, several groups, including the Economic Policy Institute and the Congressional Progressive Caucus, which has close to 100 members, have endorsed the measure, which would reduce the standard workweek by eight hours.
New York Times
March 25, 2022
The practice of a subminimum wage for tipped workers, which allows businesses to pay their workers US$2.13 an hour on the good-faith effort that tips will make up the difference, is flagged as well. “The enforcement of that is very, very sketchy,” Henderson noted. Wage theft affects 17 per cent of low-wage workers, according to an Economic Policy Institute report.
Bloomberg
March 25, 2022
Kyle K. Moore, an economist with the Economic Policy Institute’s Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy, put it this way: “Our current system has so many points of failure that you really have to address them on multiple levels.”
The Center for Public Integrity
March 25, 2022
Ron Hira is an associate professor of political science at Howard University. He is also a research associate with the Economic Policy Institute. He has written widely on high-skilled immigration, offshoring, and the decline of the middle class. Daniel Costa is an attorney and the director of immigration law and policy research at the Economic Policy Institute, and is a visiting scholar with the Global Migration Center at the University of California, Davis. He researches and writes about US and global labor migration.
Jacobin
March 25, 2022
There are various analyses of how many people earn less than $15 an hour. The left-leaning Economic Policy Institute last year that 22 million people would see a boost in pay if the federal minimum wage was raised to $15 an hour in 2025 under the Raise the Wage Act.
CNN
March 25, 2022
Instead of offering helpful tips, Teresa Ghilarducci, the author of the article who also happens to serve on the board of the leftist think tank the Economic Policy Institute, recommended that Americans who make less than $300,000 annually eat lentils and stop paying medical bills for beloved pets to deal with government-caused price hikes.
The Federalist
March 25, 2022
Ron Hira is an associate professor of political science at Howard University. He is also a research associate with the Economic Policy Institute. He has written widely on high-skilled immigration, offshoring, and the decline of the middle class. Daniel Costa is an attorney and the director of immigration law and policy research at the Economic Policy Institute, and is a visiting scholar with the Global Migration Center at the University of California, Davis. He researches and writes about US and global labor migration.
Jacobin
March 24, 2022
In return, cafeteria staff bring home some of the lowest earnings of the generally underpaid K–12 workforce. David Cooper, who directs the Economic Policy Institute’s Economic Analysis and Research Network, told Jacobin that his team estimates that school nutrition workers were paid an hourly median of $12.32 between 2014 and 2019, calculated in 2020 dollars.
Jacobin
March 18, 2022
Features Monique discussing USPS reform bill.
Free Speech TV
March 18, 2022
That troubles Elise Gould, a senior economist with the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. “You can’t explain it away,” she says of the disparities across many sectors. Gould says she’s encouraged by the fact that women today are better educated, as women continue to outpace men in college enrollment. But she adds that it doesn’t necessarily translate into bigger paychecks for women. “They’re not seeing the returns in the labor market,” she says.
MarketWatch
March 18, 2022
Median CEO pay in 2020 came in 351 times higher than the typical worker’s, according to the Economic Policy Institute (paywall).
Crain’s New York Business
March 18, 2022
More than 60 million private-sector, nonunion workers are subject to mandatory arbitration agreements, a number that has grown steadily in recent years, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
Reuters
March 18, 2022
Union-busting tactics are disturbingly common. The Economic Policy Institute found in 2019 that employers are charged with breaking labor law in 41.5 percent of all union election campaigns — meaning that they illegally intimidate employees through terminations, disciplines, or threats.
Jacobin
March 18, 2022
But the reduction in supply was met with increased demand as Americans started purchasing durable goods to replace the services they used prior to the pandemic, said Josh Bivens, director of research at the Economic Policy Institute.
CNET
March 18, 2022
The data are clear: Corporations – not workers – are to blame for recent price hikes. Research from the Economic Policy Institute looks at 110 industries and finds that there is no correlation between price acceleration and wage growth. Simply put, wage increases are not driving prices up.
Salon
March 18, 2022
According to the Economic Policy Institute, the cost of a modest but adequate standard of living in the Columbus metropolitan area for a family of one adult and two children is $70,190 a year.[11]
Policy Matters Ohio
March 18, 2022
Payday Reports
March 18, 2022
Understanding wage patterns also depends on what numbers you look at. Josh Bivens, research director of the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, wrote in an email to PolitiFact Texas the statement does not seem accurate.
Politifact
March 18, 2022
The Economic Policy Institute found typical domestic workers are paid $12.01 per hour and these workers are three times as likely to be living in poverty as other workers. They are also three times as likely to be living in poverty or be above the poverty line but still without sufficient income to make ends meet.
The Hill
March 18, 2022
The hourly rate needed for a full-time worker with no children to live in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, which currently boasts the lowest cost of living in the US, according to Insider. This figure, obtained from the Economic Policy Institute’s family budget calculator, is double the federal minimum wage, which hasn’t budged from $7.25 since 2009.
Morning Brew
March 18, 2022