Mast asserted that strong public opposition stopped deregulation bills in several states. In Virginia, she says, a subminimum wage bill for youth failed due to a public backlash.
But she was under no illusions about the ultimate goal of those advocating for looser child labor laws: “It is about taking us back to the time of economic opportunity for the few and exploitation for everyone else.”
The Progressive Magazine
May 24, 2023
In the last few decades, labor educators like Jennifer Sherer have analyzed child labor issues in other countries. Now, in her work at the Economic Policy Institute, she has been forced to refocus on domestic issues. Proposed legislation rolling back child labor laws “is an emerging and really accelerating trend,” Sherer told Future of the American Child fellows in Cleveland. “This question of how we will or whether we should regulate child labor has never been settled.”
National Press Foundation
May 24, 2023
Right now, the price of food doesn’t reflect any of those factors. In fact, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute, corporate profits accounted for 54 percent of food price increases between 2020 and 2021. For the four decades prior, only 11 percent was attributed to corporate profits, the rest to the cost of labor.
Civil Eats
May 24, 2023
“It’s absolutely the case that many employers prefer tipping to paying adequate straight wages to employees,” Ben Zipperer, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, told Insider, adding, “the entire cost is paid for by the customer when workers have to rely on tips for wage increases.”
Business Insider
May 24, 2023
The Economic Policy Institute puts North Carolina’s minimum living wage for one adult and one child as of 2020 at $48,346.
WITN
May 24, 2023
In all, the Economic Policy Institute wrote on Friday that the bill constitutes a “major win” for workers in the state.
Truthout
May 24, 2023
Between 2017 and 2020, more than $3 billion in stolen wages were recovered by the U.S. Department of Labor, state departments of labor (must be nice to have one!), attorneys general, and through litigation, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Orlando Weekly
May 24, 2023
The Iowa legislation is among at least 14 bills introduced this year in legislatures around the country that weaken child labor protections, according to a new analysis by the union-backed Economic Policy Institute.
NBC News
May 24, 2023
A new analysis from the Economic Policy Institute found the Class of 2023 is graduating into the best labor market for young workers since 1953.
Fox Business
May 24, 2023
Epperson’s early experience was typical of many exhausted employees working long hours just to get by. According to a report from the Economic Policy Institute, the lowest-earning quintile of Americans worked nearly 25 percent more hours in 2016 than they did in 1979. As wages have stagnated for low-income Americans, they’ve had to work more hours to make ends meet.
The Atlantic
May 24, 2023