Democrats are quick to note that Hawley, for all his expressed concern about opportunities for working-class men, opposes the Biden economic agenda (both the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the broader reconciliation package), even though the plan targets many of its new benefits toward blue-collar families and would create millions of jobs in construction, manufacturing, and caregiving that do not require a college degree, according to analysis by the liberal Economic Policy Institute.
The Atlantic
November 12, 2021
“For now, people are unhappy and inflation is why,” said Josh Bivens, director of research at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, who believes that price hikes will moderate next year.
CNN
November 12, 2021
Hamblin’s experiences are not exclusive to her. Activists and moms told USA TODAY there is a glaring hole in the nation’s laws that ensure accommodations and accessibility for mothers to pump breast milk for their infants while at work. Nearly 9 million people aren’t covered by the current federal law, according to estimates from the Economic Policy Institute.
The USA Today
November 12, 2021
But here’s the thing: When Amazon comes to town and starts hiring, it doesn’t necessarily equal more jobs overall, per Ben Zipperer with the Economic Policy Institute.
Marketplace
November 12, 2021
Josh Bivens, director of research at the Economic Policy Institute, says workers currently have unique power to ask for more.“Normally, it takes some time for higher inflation to really start to pull up wages in its wake as workers bargain with the higher inflation in mind,” he says. “I think now we’ve got a strange situation where inflation is spiked, people really have it on their mind and there are really big pockets of labor market tightness in the economy, like in leisure and hospitality.”
CNBC
November 12, 2021
“According to the Economic Policy Institute, the Build Back Better Act’s macroeconomic boost looks more valuable by the day, said that on November 3, 2021. Their analysis shows the U.S. economy is not overheating due to too much fiscal relief and recovery provided earlier this year, expert after expert after expert says that. Did we have pent-up demand? We did.
PR Newswire
November 12, 2021
The result is what economist Josh Bivens of the labor-oriented Economic Policy Institute calls the “unwarranted leap” of attributing the recent price spikes to “‘too much’ fiscal relief and recovery.” There’s no evidence that merely providing more assistance to ordinary households caused inflation and therefore should be abandoned.
Los Angeles Times
November 12, 2021
“I would expect over the next year the price inflation to relent a bit, and most of the wage growth to stay — and so I think they’re going to come out ahead,” said Josh Bivens, the director of research at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. “But yeah, this inflationary spike has definitely bit into the growth of paychecks.”
Washington Post
November 12, 2021
“Workers have employers over a barrel for a little while,” Josh Bivens, director of research at the Economic Policy Institute, told her. “I don’t think it’s going to last all that long. But for now, I think workers see the higher inflation, they see employers in some sectors are pretty desperate to attract workers, and they think ‘I’m gonna go for it.’”
CNBC
November 12, 2021
Caroline Hyde, Romaine Bostick & Taylor Riggs bring the news and analysis you may have missed after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today’s show tackles the jobs report Guests Today: Elise Gould of Economic Policy Institute, Christian Smalls of the Amazon Labor Union.
Bloomberg TV
November 12, 2021
As a result, some reliable indicators of the economy have become less reliable. Yes, there has been a solid recovery in hiring yet so many people have stopped working or seeking jobs that the adjusted unemployment rate is closer to 7.3%, instead of 4.6%, said Heidi Shierholz, president of the liberal Economic Policy Institute and a former chief economist at the Labor Department.
The Associated Press
November 12, 2021
Josh Bivens, an economist at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, said he thinks inflation would be lower today if the most recent coronavirus relief bill hadn’t passed. “But I also think we’d have created far fewer jobs over the past year, and people’s wages would be lower — their incomes would be lower.” Bivens added that the generous relief package gave workers the financial cushion and leverage to negotiate higher earnings or switch to better jobs, setting the stage for a massive reassessment of work in America.
Washington Post
November 12, 2021
Economic Policy Institute President Heidi Shierholz joined “Bloomberg Markets: Americas” with Guy Johnson and Taylor Riggs to discuss the U.S. October Payrolls number which blew away estimates.
Bloomberg TV
November 12, 2021
Heidi Shierholz and Michael Strain talked about the U.S. economy and President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda.
C-SPAN
November 12, 2021
The left-leaning Economic Policy Institute also criticized the study, suggesting that the data and methodology couldn’t distinguish between the effects of wage increases and other factors. It called the estimated job loss “implausibly large and well outside the range of existing research on the minimum wage.”
Minneapolis Star Tribune
November 12, 2021
Cites EPI study on CEO pay.
The Intercept
November 12, 2021
While business owners have been a strong focus in discussions of equity, workers can’t be left out, advocates say.
“In the most recent federal proposals, every single one of them has this explicit and worthwhile focus on equity for entrepreneurs and giving formerly incarcerated folks privileged access…to get into the business but no one has really said anything about standards to ensure cannabis jobs are good jobs,” says David Cooper, senior economic analyst at the think tank Economic Policy Institute.
That’s a problem because “the vast majority of people that are going to interact with this industry in terms of their career are going to be folks working rank-and-file,” Cooper says.
Cooper co-authored a report published in September exploring the importance of protecting job quality and workers’ collective bargaining rights in cannabis.
Santa Fe Reporter
November 12, 2021
Unionized workers during the pandemic have been able to secure enhanced safety measures, premium pay, and a say in the terms of any future furloughs or workshare arrangements, according to a report published last year by the Economic Policy Institute.
Workers covered by a union contract also earn on average 11.2 percent more in wages than their non-unionized peers in the same industry and with similar education and experience, the report found.
The Hill
November 12, 2021
“Health and safety concerns are still number one on people’s minds,” Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, told Yahoo Money. “More and more jobs are requiring showing up in person. That is still a major concern for many people who may live with vulnerable family members or have concerns about their own health.”
Yahoo Finance
November 12, 2021
Pelosi ought to be organizing economic history seminars for her caucus with people like Cecilia Rouse, Heather Boushey, and Jared Bernstein of the Council of Economic Advisers, and outside experts like Damon Silvers of the AFL-CIO and Heidi Shierholz of the Economic Policy Institute, and a whole bunch of people who can make sure that House Democrats know this history.
New Republic
November 12, 2021
More than half of all workers who vote to form a union are still without a collective bargaining agreement a year later, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank.
Associated Press
November 12, 2021
“With these welcome gains on top of significant improvements early in the summer, the recovery appears to be getting back on track,” said Elise Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute. “That said, significant job shortfalls remain, especially in leisure and hospitality as well as both private and public sector education employment.”
Sinclair Broadcast Group
November 12, 2021
The Illinois Economic Policy Institute’s report, which comes just days after the passage of a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, detailed I-290’s current infrastructure needs and examined the safety concerns, congestion problems and economic impact project.
The Chicago Sun Times
November 12, 2021
Caroline Hyde, Romaine Bostick & Taylor Riggs bring the news and analysis you may have missed after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today’s show tackles the jobs report Guests Today: Elise Gould of Economic Policy Institute, Christian Smalls of the Amazon Labor Union.
Bloomberg TV
November 10, 2021
Meanwhile, the United States, like all nations, is struggling to recover from job losses, income losses and business losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Last year, the Economic Policy Institute reported that a $2 trillion-dollar investment in clean energy, energy efficiency, and infrastructure in various states would help economies recover and rebuild in ways that do not exacerbate climate change. Clean-energy investments would generate, for example:
Florida Phoenix
November 5, 2021
Myth No. 1: the productivity/pay gap. Progressives, including at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, assert that the gap between productivity and inflation-adjusted hourly compensation has been widening since the mid-1970s. However, this calculation deflates hourly compensation with the consumer price index, which long has been recognized as upwardly biased. Doing so weighs misleadingly on real hourly compensation. The gap narrows using the personal consumption expenditures deflator, a more accurate measure of consumer prices.
Barron’s
November 5, 2021
At the same time, anywhere from 36 million to 60 million Americans are subject to noncompete agreements, according to an Economic Policy Institute estimate. Noncompete agreements prohibit employees from going to work for a competitor within a certain time frame after leaving their job. Specific circumstances vary by contract, but generally, a noncompete is still valid even if an employee is fired from their job.
The Washington Examiner
November 5, 2021
“Some places have gone to try out what it means to actually be a high-road employer,” Heidi Shierholz, president of the Economic Policy Institute, said. “Reduced turnover, higher productivity, higher morale — through all that stuff you recoup the cost of the increased pay.”
VOX
November 5, 2021
The Economic Policy Institute argues that the “unceasing growth of wage inequality that undercuts wage growth for the bottom 90% reaffirms the need to place generating robust wage growth for the vast majority and worker power at the center of economic policymaking.”
The Collegian
November 5, 2021