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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… -
New Study Finds Teens’ Early Work Experiences Have Long Lasting Career Benefits
August 2014
Washington, D.C. – Today the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) is releasing a new study from economists Dr. Christopher Ruhm and Dr. Charles Baum from University of Virginia and Middle Tennessee State University that quantifies the long-lasting benefits of having a part-time job as a teen. The study comes of the heels of newly released data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) showing that the number 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… -
New TV Commercial Features Tipped Workers Concerned Over the Negative Impact of a Tipped Wage Hike
July 2014
Washington, D.C. – Today the Employment Policies Institute is announcing its new commercial airing in Washington, D.C. that highlights tipped employees’ concerns regarding a proposal currently before Congress to raise the tipped minimum wage by 232 percent. The tipped restaurant workers interviewed for the commercial argue this proposed wage hike will actually reduce opportunities for them and their co-workers. The ad features three non-scripted tipped restaurant employees… -
New Survey of Seattle Businesses: $15 Wage Hike Will Raise Prices, Reduce Job Opportunities, and Shut Doors
June 2014
Washington, D.C. — Today the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) released a new survey of Seattle businesses gauging how they plan to adapt to the city’s minimum wage increase to $15.00 – the highest in the country. Of those surveyed, nearly 70 percent said that the higher minimum wage would cause a “big increase” in their labor costs. In response, businesses were “very likely” to reduce employee hours,…