The Economic Policy Institute’s “Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 by 2025 would lift the pay of 32 million workers” research paper analyzed pay by state, unemployment rate, job type and effect on poverty levels. The foundation of the research was based on the “Raise the Wage Act of 2021,” which had five increases in the minimum wage between now and 2025 when it would reach the $15 threshold.
24/7 Wall St.
March 10, 2021
Beyond this bill, union organizers are seeing glimmers of hope, however. For one thing, a study by the progressive Economic Policy Institute found workers in unions were less likely to get laid off than their non-unionized counterparts during the Covid-19 recession, making a case for more union representation. For another, the administration of President Joe Biden is positioning itself as far friendlier to organized labor than even past Democratic administrations.
VOX
March 10, 2021
The report, published by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute (EPI), found that an increase in the minimum wage would affect 22.1 million workers directly, and 10.1 million workers indirectly, by the year 2025 – and together would constitute 21% of the projected U.S. workforce in that year.
Yahoo Finance
March 10, 2021
Bloomberg BusinessWeek
March 10, 2021
According to the Economic Policy Institute, 29 states already have a minimum wage higher than the federal minimum. A large portion of those states raise the amount automatically with inflation.
The Tribune-Democrat
March 10, 2021
The vocal support from the Biden administration is significant for the future of the legislation, said Celine McNicholas, director of government affairs and labor counsel at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
“We just don’t know what labor law reform is possible with an administration willing to expend critical political capital,” McNicholas said.
Bloomberg Law
March 10, 2021
“There is no paid leave option for the vast majority of workers, and so who is going to take the unpaid leave? Well, the person who is earning less,” said Elise Gould with the Economic Policy Institute.
NPR Marketplace
March 10, 2021
The big picture: The PRO Act would restrict companies like Uber and Lyft from classifying workers as independent contractors and improve protections for workers’ right to strike, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Axios
March 10, 2021
In a meticulous analysis for the respected Economic Policy Institute, Monique Morrissey debunked the Yankee Institute report, revealing it was based on a cherry-picked sample of workers, used nonstandard control variables, and inflated the cost of retiree benefits in the public sector, while minimizing their cost in the private sector. Morrissey concluded that Connecticut public sector workers without college degrees are compensated somewhat more than those in the private sector, while those with college and graduate degrees are compensated somewhat less than in the private sector, even when factoring in more generous public sector benefits. In short, Morrissey writes, “taxpayers are getting a bargain!”
New Canaan Advertiser
March 10, 2021
Minimum wage workers are not just teenagers looking to earn spending money; the average age of people who would stand to benefit from the increased minimum wage is 35 years old, with 88% being over the age of 20 according to the Economic Policy Institute.
The Observer
March 10, 2021
In a statement the Economic Policy Institute explained that
The PRO Act helps restore workers’ right to join together to bargain for better wages and working conditions by streamlining the process when workers form a union, ensuring that they are successful in negotiating the first agreement, and holding employers accountable when they violate labor law.
Workday Minnesota
March 10, 2021
One thing it does not do is raise the minimum wage even though an Economic Policy Institute study looked at the impact and found that 59% of the people that would benefit from that would be women.
MSNBC Live
March 9, 2021
Since 2012, teacher demand has outpaced supply, and that gap grew to more than 110,000 in the 2017-18 school year, up from a 20,000-teacher deficit in 2012-13, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
K-12 Dive
March 9, 2021
For Democrats, it’s $15 or bust.
After all, it’s not such a big lift, politically or economically. According to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), 32 million workers — 21 percent of the workforce — would be affected by a phased-in increase of the minimum wage. In Arizona, where the state minimum wage is $12.15, an estimated 835,000 workers would see an increase in their wages over the next four years. In West Virginia, about 35 percent of the workforce would see a gradual increase in their wages up from the current state minimum of $8.75.
The Washington Post
March 9, 2021
Elise Gould, economista del Economic Policy Institute, apunta a otro factor determinante en el hecho de que en un momento de dificultades como al que ha forzado la pandemia de covid-19 se pierdan más empleos femeninos: en igualdad de condiciones, con ambos cónyuges trabajando en un puesto similar, la mujer gana menos, lo que pone de relevancia la importancia de recortar la brecha salarial.
“Además del contexto cultural, si uno de los dos miembros del hogar deben abandonar su trabajo para atender la casa, será la mujer la que suponga un menor golpe financiero”, señala Gould, quien coincide en señalar la falta de una red de bienestar social en Estados Unidos como el principal escollo para la incorporación plena de la mujer en el mercado laboral.
EFE
March 9, 2021
The Economic Policy Institute reports that women and people of color are most impacted by low wages in the U.S. The nonprofit states that 59% of low-wage earners are women, while nearly one-third of African Americans and one-quarter of Latinos would get a raise if the federal minimum wage were increased to $15. More than half of minimum-wage earners work full-time, the nonprofit reports.
WHYY
March 9, 2021
The UFCW cited figures presented by the Economic Policy Institute which indicate that increasing the minimum wage to $15 by 2025 would raise the pay of 82-percent of all Delaware workers who are currently in poverty.
WGMD
March 9, 2021
According to the Economic Policy Institute, many of the workers who would benefit from raising the minimum wage are college-educated women with children and workers of color, helping to eliminate the racial pay gap.
Teen Vogue
March 9, 2021
An Economic Policy Institute report found that employers try to block the formation of unions 40% of the time. Employers also regularly stall initial bargaining agreements during union formation.
The American Independent
March 9, 2021
The other countries that offer such programs typically have lower child poverty. Denmark, which spends 20.9% of its GDP on social programs, has a child poverty rate of 2.9%, per the The Economic Policy Institute.
Business Insider
March 9, 2021
Even before the pandemic, more than 4 in 10 children lived in households that struggle to meet basic expenses, and the United States has one of the highest child poverty rates of all developed countries, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Poverty can have a lifelong impact on kids, negatively affecting their learning and development, their physical brain composition, and their earnings in adulthood.
CNN
March 9, 2021
Progressives have remained undeterred, gambling that the strong public support for Biden’s relief plan, augurs well for a wage hike. Data show that Pennsylvania currently lags all of its neighboring states in its minimum wage. Even West Virginia, among the poorest states in the nation, has an $8.75 hourly minimum, according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute.
Pennsylvania Capital-Star
March 9, 2021
According to the Economic Policy Institute, Latinas accounted for 20.2 percent of the more than 20 million people listed as unemployed in April 2020. This is largely because Hispanic women tend to work in the industries hardest hit by COVID-19 lockdowns: hospitality and leisure (hotels, restaurants, entertainment and tourism), the service sector (cleaning services, food, health care and security), commerce and education, among others. Despite a gradual, mild recovery over the ensuing months, Latinas still made up 9.2 percent of the unemployed in January.
AARP
March 9, 2021
One common feature is that many people who lost jobs earned low wages. According to an analysis from the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning research group, workers in the lowest quartile of earners lost almost eight million jobs from 2019 to 2020, while the highest wage earners gained jobs.
New York Times
March 9, 2021
Ford is also a committed backer of minimum wage efforts on the policy front via grantees like the Economic Policy Institute.
Inside Philanthropy
March 9, 2021
In 2019, the ratio of CEO-to-typical-worker compensation in the United States was 320-to-1, up fivefold from 61-to-1 in 1989, according to the nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute. It’s no secret that the rich keep getting richer while the poor stay poor.
GreenBiz
March 9, 2021
After the Senate’s changes, approximately four million Americans who received stimulus cheques as part of December’s $900bn stimulus round won’t be seeing them this time, said Robert Scott, a senior economist at the progressive-leaning Economic Policy Institute, who calculated the number based on 2018 tax filing data.
Al Jazeera
March 9, 2021
Wages for front-line Asian American/Pacific Islander female workers were up to 21% less than their white male counterparts, a new report from the Economic Policy Institute said today.
Axios
March 9, 2021
Of the 32 million workers who would receive a raise under a $15 minimum wage, 24 million are in states where senators voted against it, according to a new report from the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute (EPI).
That works out to 75% of all the workers who would benefit from a higher federal minimum. The 32 million workers who would be impacted represent 21% of the overall workforce, according to the report.
Business Insider
March 9, 2021