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Expanded “Faces of $15” Website Profiles The Victims Of A $15 Minimum Wage: Site features over 100 stories of minimum wage victims, eight video documentaries
May 2017 · ·
Washington D.C. – Today, the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) relaunched its Faces of $15 website, which documents the real victims of dramatic minimum wage increases. The new site features over 100 stories of affected businesses, which can be sorted by location and consequence type (business closure, job loss, etc). The site also features video documentaries and an interactive map of affected businesses. Business owners are encouraged to write in… -
$15 Minimum Wage Draws Bipartisan Opposition From Economists, Politicians: Research, real stories show damage of extreme wage hikes
April 2017 · ·
Washington D.C. – Today, the Employment Policies Institute criticized a proposal by the Congressional Progressive Caucus to raise the federal minimum wage by 107 percent to $15 an hour. The best academic research and real stories from across the country show the negative impacts of an extreme minimum wage hike to $15 an hour, and the policy has been criticized by a bipartisan group of economists and… -
EPI Supports Rhode Island Proposal to Expand Youth Minimum Wage
April 2017 · ·
EPI Supports Rhode Island Proposal to Expand Youth Minimum Wage Points to research showing value of training wages that keep career pathways open for young jobseekers Washington D.C. – Today the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) announced support for legislation that would greatly-expand the training wage in Rhode Island, to keep career pathways open for young jobseekers. Rhode Island State Representative Kenneth J. Mendonça is testifying before the… -
New Analysis Showcases Consequences of $11 Minimum Wage in St. Louis: Economists find roughly 1,000 jobs lost, half of which come among city youth
March 2017 · ·
Washington D.C. – Today the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) released a new analysis conducted by economists David Macpherson from Trinity University and William Even from Miami University examining the consequences of raising St. Louis minimum wage to $11 an hour–a 43 percent increase that may take place on January 1st, 2018. The state legislature is attempting to block this increase after months of courtroom battles, so that one uniform state minimum wage applies. The analysis concludes that roughly 1,000… -
Minimum Wage Madness: 42 Different State and Local Wage Hikes Ring in the New Year: Mind-boggling patchwork of minimum wage increases; 14 different rates in New York State, 13 different increases in California
December 2016 · ·
Washington D.C. – Today the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) is highlighting the 42 state and local minimum wage increases taking place on either December 31st or January 1st. Nineteen states are raising their starter wages on New Year’s Day, with Arizona (24 percent increase), Maine (20 percent), and Washington state (16 percent) having the dubious distinction of the largest increases. Twenty-three localities, including 12 cities in California, are also… -
New Analysis: “Mainers for Fair Wages” Overwhelmingly Funded by Non-Mainers: New funding disclosures show out-of-state money funds vast majority of campaign for $12 starting wage
October 2016 · ·
Washington D.C. – Today, the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) released an analysis of new campaign finance data from the Maine Ethics Commission which shows that the Mainers for Fair Wages political action committee (PAC) has received at least 75 percent of its monetary contributions from out-of-state donors. These donors include national labor unions, other labor-funded PACs, and labor-aligned advocacy groups. The disclosures show that Mainers for Fair Wages PAC may have received as much as…