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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… -
Employment Policy Group: Activists Use Economically Flawed Research on Minimum Wage: New Analysis Shows Faulty Methods Used to Promote Activists’ Agenda
April 2011 · ·
Today, the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) released a new analysis exposing the flaws in minimum wage research from activist economists at the University of California – Berkeley’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. The research, being promoted by policy advocates at the National Employment Law Project, erroneously claims that minimum wage increases do not cause job loss or slow hiring for inexperienced groups such as teens.… -
Employment Policy Group: Activists Use Economically Flawed Research on Minimum Wage: New Analysis Shows Faulty Methods Used to Promote Activists’ Agenda
April 2011 · ·
Today, the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) released a new analysis exposing the flaws in minimum wage research from activist economists at the University of California – Berkeley’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. The research, being promoted by policy advocates at the National Employment Law Project, erroneously claims that minimum wage increases do not cause job loss or slow hiring for inexperienced groups such as teens.… -
New Analysis: 25 States Still Have Teen Unemployment Rates Above 25 Percent: EPI Supports Training Wage Measures To Boost Teen Employment
April 2011 · ·
An analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data by the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) shows that 25 states had teen unemployment rates above 25 percent, according to the most recent data available (see chart below). Nationally, the teen unemployment rate rose slightly to 24.5 percent in March 2011; the rate for black teens rose to 42.1 percent. So far this year, five states have considered legislation to… -
New Analysis: 25 States Still Have Teen Unemployment Rates Above 25 Percent: EPI Supports Training Wage Measures To Boost Teen Employment
April 2011 · ·
An analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data by the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) shows that 25 states had teen unemployment rates above 25 percent, according to the most recent data available (see chart below). Nationally, the teen unemployment rate rose slightly to 24.5 percent in March 2011; the rate for black teens rose to 42.1 percent. So far this year, five states have considered legislation to… -
Employment Policy Group Urges California Legislators to Consider Unintended Consequences of Wage Hike: New Analysis Finds Proponents Using Creative Economics Instead of Fact
March 2011 · ·
Today, the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) denounced California’s proposal to increase the state’s minimum wage and criticized proponents’ use of creative economics to defend the bill. Introduced by Assemblyman Alejo (D-Watsonville) and co-sponsored by Assemblyman Allen (D-Santa Rosa), the bill would increase California’s minimum wage from $8.00 an hour to $8.50 an hour and index the wage to inflation thereafter. The legislation (AB 10) being considered tomorrow…