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New Study: Raising Cash Wage Would Kill Opportunities for Waiters and Waitresses in California: Research Finds More Than 6,000 Full-Time Equivalent Jobs Would Be Lost With State Proposal
November 2011 · ·
Today, the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) released a new study by economists William E. Even of Miami University and David A. Macpherson of Trinity University that examines the consequences for waiters, waitresses, and other tipped employees of reducing the “tip credit.” The tip credit is a labor law provision that allows employers of tipped employees to pay a cash wage of $2.13 an hour, so long as… -
New Wage Rates Will Cause Additional Lost Jobs: States with Already High Teen Unemployment Rates Will See Unintended Consequences
October 2011 · ·
WASHINGTON – Today, the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) responded to recent announcements of minimum wage increases in four states (Montana, Ohio, Oregon, and Washington). These increases come with a myriad of real unintended consequences that are particularly harmful to less-educated and minority groups. Each of these states is already suffering a high average teen unemployment rate (see below) and is at risk for creating further job loss.… -
New Wage Rates Will Cause Additional Lost Jobs: States with Already High Teen Unemployment Rates Will See Unintended Consequences
October 2011 · ·
WASHINGTON – Today, the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) responded to recent announcements of minimum wage increases in four states (Montana, Ohio, Oregon, and Washington). These increases come with a myriad of real unintended consequences that are particularly harmful to less-educated and minority groups. Each of these states is already suffering a high average teen unemployment rate (see below) and is at risk for creating further job loss.… -
Another Summer of High Teen Unemployment: New Analysis Shows Teen Unemployment Remains Above 20 Percent in 35 States Through Summer 2011
August 2011 · ·
Today, the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) released an analysis of new Census Bureau data showing teen unemployment remains above 20 percent in 35 states through July 2011. Seven states and the District of Columbia were still averaging more than 30 percent. “The nation’s teens have just experienced their third summer in a row with an unemployment rate above 20 percent,” said Michael Saltsman, research fellow at the… -
Another Summer of High Teen Unemployment: New Analysis Shows Teen Unemployment Remains Above 20 Percent in 35 States Through Summer 2011
August 2011 · ·
Today, the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) released an analysis of new Census Bureau data showing teen unemployment remains above 20 percent in 35 states through July 2011. Seven states and the District of Columbia were still averaging more than 30 percent. “The nation’s teens have just experienced their third summer in a row with an unemployment rate above 20 percent,” said Michael Saltsman, research fellow at the… -
New Study Warns of Employment Crisis for Minority Young Adults: Research Finds Low Employment Rates, Unequal Harm for Minorities as a Consequence of Wage Mandates
May 2011 · ·
Today, with employment levels for young adults at historically low levels, the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) released a new study by economists William E. Even of Miami University and David A. Macpherson of Trinity University that quantifies the unequal harm to minority young adults from minimum wage mandates. Drs. Even and Macpherson examine Census Bureau data from 1994 to 2010, and focus on young males without a…