[United States] Gender wage gap persists in 2023: Women are paid roughly 22% less than men on average ( www.epi.org )
"We shouldn’t make workers choose between going to work sick or going without pay:" Lack of paid sick days is still a real problem for many workers in the US - [November 2023] ( www.epi.org )
Across the United States, the share of lowest-wage workers with access to paid sick time nearly doubled between 2010 and 2023, from 20% to 39%. While this marks progress, it still means 61% of the lowest-wage workers do not have access to paid sick time....
The impact of the wave of strike activity goes far beyond the 2024 election: A revitalized labor movement could lead to a fairer economy for decades to come ( www.epi.org )
Last week, both President Joe Biden and Donald Trump traveled to Michigan. Many in the media cast these visits as similar efforts to woo union voters for the 2024 election. But that is mostly wrong or misleading. The visits were clearly not symmetric…
CEO pay has skyrocketed 1,460% since 1978 ( www.epi.org )
“average top CEO compensation was $15.6 million in 2021, up 9.8% since 2020. In 2021, the ratio of CEO-to-typical-worker compensation was 399-to-1 under the realized measure of CEO pay; that is up from 366-to-1 in 2020 and a big increase from 20-to-1 in 1965 and 59-to-1 in 1989”
Could tax increases alone close the long-run fiscal gap? ( www.epi.org )
Extraordinary fiscal recovery measures during the COVID-19 pandemic pushed U.S. public debt to levels rivaling its historic highs. Interest rates are significantly higher than they have been in over a decade. Many projections—including near-canonical graphs of debt as a share of gross domestic product (GDP) produced by the...
What to know about this summer's strike activity: What's spurring the rise in labor actions? ( www.epi.org )
Summary: Thousands of workers across the country have been going on strike or threatening to go on strike this summer—fighting back after decades of rising economic inequality fueled by declining labor actions and union organizing. The right to unionize and go on strike has been under attack for decades, and many workers...
Chasing the dream of equity: How policy has shaped racial economic disparities ( www.epi.org )
