In 2024, state advocates were better equipped to fight against harmful child labor bills. Get insight on the state legislative landscape in our latest blog: www.epi.org/blog/more-st...
Click here for the latest version of our 50-state maps showing the status of legislation to roll back or strengthen child labor protections. Early this year, we detailed the continued state legislativ...
Southern states that follow the model have: 📉 lower GDPs 📉 lower labor force participation rates 📉 job growth that consistently falls behind population growth. 🧵2/2 Learn more: www.epi.org/publication/...
States that have embraced the Southern economic development model are underperforming when compared to regions that did not implement this model.
Far from delivering promised shared prosperity, “business-friendly” policies have impoverished the South. On indicator after indicator, states that embrace the Southern economic development model that is #RootedinRacismwww.epi.org/publication/...
States that have embraced the Southern economic development model are underperforming when compared to regions that did not implement this model.
Join us next week on Tuesday, June 11 at 2pm ET for a webinar discussing recent developments at the National Labor Relations Board and their impacts on worker organizing! Register here: www.epi.org/event/nlrb-w...
Please join the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) for a webinar discussing recent developments at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and their impacts on worker organizing. NLRB General Cou...
Poor People's Campaign's 17-Point Agenda includes living wages, voting rights, and other essential policies that address the immediate needs and concerns of the over 135 million poor and low-wage workers and people across the country. Learn more on their website: www.poorpeoplescampaign.org 🧵 2/2
A National Call for Moral Revival
EPI is proud to join Poor People's Campaign as a mobilization partner to help organize the upcoming June 29th “Mass Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly & Moral March on Washington DC & to the Polls.” It's time for candidates to commit to addressing the crisis of death by poverty. 🧵 1/2
Instead of trying to overturn a rule that helps protect both patients and workers, nursing home operators should improve pay and working conditions to attract and retain the staff they need. Learn more on our blog: www.epi.org/blog/for-pro... 🧵3/3
Opposition to a new nursing home staffing standard has come to a boil with owners seeking to overturn the rule via a Congressional Review Act resolution, a “salted earth” strategy that would prevent t...
One of the nation’s biggest nursing home trade groups is fighting these needed changes, and are now asking Congress to overturn the rule. They claim that a "worker shortage" is preventing them from meeting the new staffing standard, but our analysis shows that isn't true. 🧵 2/3
Nursing home operators are pushing Congress to block a new rule ensuring adequate staffing for patients. The rule requires all nursing homes to: ✅ Provide at least 3.48 hrs of nursing care per resident per day ✅ Have a registered nurse available 24/7 www.epi.org/blog/for-pro... 🧵1/3
Opposition to a new nursing home staffing standard has come to a boil with owners seeking to overturn the rule via a Congressional Review Act resolution, a “salted earth” strategy that would prevent t...
To ensure recent gains are fully realized and that racial and gender wage gaps are addressed, policymakers must prioritize full employment, increase the federal minimum wage, strengthen and enforce labor standards, and make it easier for workers to come together and form unions.