Washington D.C. – Today, the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) placed a full-page ad in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch highlighting how a $12 minimum wage would cost the state over 20,000 jobs and put starter jobs out of reach by cutting off the bottom rungs of the career ladder. View the ad here. The ad features a young employee looking worryingly at a career ladder with the bottom rungs of entry-level jobs cut […]

Washington D.C. -- The Employment Policies Institute (EPI) is placing a full-page ad in tomorrow’s edition of USA Today highlighting how a $15 minimum wage would incentivize businesses to replace employees with automated, self-service alternatives. The ad coincides with another round of coordinated union-backed protests of fast food restaurants demanding a $15 minimum wage. The Associated Press has reported that tomorrow’s round of protests will […]

Washington D.C. – Today, the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) is highlighting recent economic research finding that a $12 federal minimum wage would cost 770,000 jobs. It is also highlighting stories of small businesses that have been forced to reduce job opportunities because of recent local minimum wage increases. This morning, Congressional Democrats including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Labor Secretary Tom Perez, and activist groups are […]

Washington D.C. -- The Employment Policies Institute (EPI) is placing a full-page ad in tomorrow’s New York Post calling out Gov. Andrew Cuomo for his uninformed views on New York’s $15 minimum wage. Gov. Cuomo has been traveling the state in an RV paid for by his union allies, trying to drum up support for his proposal to raise the state minimum wage by 67 percent […]

Washington D.C. -- The Employment Policies Institute (EPI) released new research today by Drs. Aaron Yelowitz of University of Kentucky and Lloyd Corder of CorCom Inc. and Carnegie-Mellon University evaluating Washington D.C.’s proposed Hours and Scheduling Stability Act. Last year, the D.C. City Council began considering legislation that would require chain retail and restaurant employers to post work schedules at least three weeks in advance, and establish […]

Washington D.C. -- Today, the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) released a new analysis conducted by Drs. David Macpherson of Trinity University and William Even of Miami University examining the impact of Maine’s proposed minimum wage increase to $12 by 2020. Recently, labor union-backed minimum wage proponents qualified a question on November’s state ballot about whether to raise the state minimum wage by 60 percent to $12. Following the […]