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Byline: Taylor Telford Chief executives of the nation's publicly traded companies saw their collective pay decline by almost 20 percent in 2023, new analysis shows, and even experts are stumped [...]

Byline: Taylor Telford Chief executives of the nation's publicly traded companies saw their collective pay decline by almost 20 percent in 2023, new analysis shows, and even experts are stumped [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by Economic Policy Institute (EPI): For well over a decade economists and other social scientists have documented a strong advantage in economic performance [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by Economic Policy Institute (EPI): Thousands of workers across the country have been going on strike or are threatening to go on strike [...]

Byline: Poppy Noor Wages, employment security, incarceration rates and access to unemployment benefits are all worse in US states where abortion is restricted or banned, compared with those where it [...]

The Last Time the Minimum Wage Was Worth This Little Was . . . the Year Elvis Released His First Single A recent Economic Policy Institute analysis of the Consumer [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by Economic Policy Institute (EPI): A new EPI report documents the correlation between higher levels of unionization and a range of economic, personal, [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by Economic Policy Institute (EPI): A new EPI report shows that child care and home health care workers are deeply undervalued and underpaid--and [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by Economic Policy Institute (EPI): A new report from the Economic Analysis and Research Network (EARN) at EPI and the Local Solutions Support [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by Economic Policy Institute (EPI): A new Economic Policy Institute report shows that the U.S. unemployment insurance (UI) system has historically underperformed as [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by Economic Policy Institute (EPI): A new EPI report finds that a $15 federal minimum wage by 2025 would raise pay for one-half [...]

There is a class of worker, mostly those who get tips, whose earnings floor has not been increased since 1991. When is a minimum not a minimum? On payday, for [...]

(https://www.epi.org/publication/child-care-workers-min-wage/) A new report from the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute  (EPI) revealed that the proposed raise in the minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 per hour would benefit 560,000 U.S. childcare workers. [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by Economic Policy Institute (EPI): A new EPI report finds that a $15 federal minimum wage by 2025 would raise pay for more [...]

(https://www.epi.org/publication/child-care-workers-min-wage/) A new report from the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute  (EPI) revealed that the proposed raise in the minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 per hour would benefit 560,000 U.S. childcare workers. [...]

Byline: Christopher Ingraham Proponents of a national, single-payer health care system, like one favored by presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, have long argued it would make medical care [...]

Byline: Valerie Strauss Why is it so hard for schools to keep teachers? Here's the short, graphic version, from the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank based in Washington [...]

Byline: Christopher Ingraham Wages at the top of the income distribution continue to rise much more rapidly than wages for everyone else, according to an analysis of the latest federal [...]

Byline: Valerie Strauss Consider: - By the age of 14, approximately 25 percent of African-American children have experienced a parent - in most cases a father - being imprisoned for [...]

Byline: Christopher IngrahamPolitical decisions by elected officials are largely responsible for a 'collapse in pay for the bottom 90 percent' of the labor market since 1979, according to a new [...]

DESPITE persistent unemployment and stagnant wages, few believe that our cash-strapped government is likely to simply create better-paying jobs. But there is a way for this country to get more [...]

Byline: BARRIE MCKENNA AND JEREMY TOROBIN RECOVERY WASHINGTON and OTTAWA -- The North American economy is roaring back to life, easing fears of a perilous slide back into recession. The [...]

Byline: David R. Francis The financial crisis and the trembling United States economy have dealt a hard blow to conservative economic ideology. It's 'quite devastating to the conservative idea that [...]

Byline: Stephanie Armour A new federal minimum wage will go into effect today, the first in a series of wage increases heralded by some low-income advocates but criticized by business [...]