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UC-Berkeley Minimum Wage Miss Provides Warning for Los Angeles: Small Business Closures a Warning Sign for Los Angeles
February 2015 · ·
Washington – Today, the Employment Policies Institute pointed to new credibility problems with a University of California-Berkeley analysis of a $15 minimum wage in San Francisco. These problems call into question the accuracy of a similar analysis that researchers at the school conducted for Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. Last year, the Berkeley authors estimated that, if passed in San Francisco, the $15 minimum wage would cause… -
EPI Questions Use of Biased Berkeley Researchers for Independent Study of LA Wage Proposal
January 2015 · ·
For Immediate Release January 12, 2015 Employment Policies Institute Contact: Jordan Bruneau (202) 463-7650 EPI Questions Use of Biased Berkeley Researchers for Independent Study of LA Wage Proposal Highlights Research Team’s Past Associations and Past Suspect Methodology WASHINGTON, DC – The Employment Policies Institute today called for skepticism in using a team of biased researchers affiliated with the University of California-Berkeley to conduct an independent study of… -
EPI Television Ad in Kentucky Compares Obama’s False Claims on Minimum Wage to Broken Promises on Health Care
September 2014 · ·
Washington, D.C. – Today the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) is announcing a television commercial airing in the Louisville metropolitan area in Kentucky that compares President Obama’s misleading claim that a higher minimum wage doesn’t cost jobs to his broken health care reform promise: “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it.” The ad points to a report from nonpartisan government economists at the Congressional Budget… -
Media Advisory: Who’s Behind the Curtain of the Fast Food “Strikes”?
September 2014 · ·
Washington, D.C. – The Employment Policies Institute (EPI) is releasing a media advisory ahead of Thursday’s coordinated fast-food “strikes” planned in major cities nationwide. Below, it lists three key background points and often overlooked questions for the media to ask in its reporting on the protests – information that will make stories on the subject more accurate. The protests are not a “grassroots” effort. They are being… -
EPI Criticizes Flawed Study on San Francisco Wage Hike By Biased Researchers at UC-Berkeley
August 2014 · ·
WASHINGTON, DC – The Employment Policies Institute today criticized as faulty a new report from a team of biased researchers affiliated with the University of California-Berkeley. The study relies on discredited assumptions about the impact of a higher minimum, and uses for support studies that have been roundly criticized by experts in the field. EPI is providing the following background on the study’s authors: One of… -
Full-Page Ad in Roll Call Calls out Hypocritical Lawmakers for Not Paying their Interns
July 2014 · ·
Washington, D.C. – Today the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) has a full-page ad in Roll Call calling out Representatives Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill) and Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) for their disingenuous stance in favor of a $10.10 an hour minimum wage hike while simultaneously failing to provide any wages to their interns. The ad’s headline features the Twitter hashtag #LiveTheWage crossed out to read, “#PayTheWage (To Your Interns)” and…