Economic Policy Institute

Please join the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) for a webinar discussing recent developments at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and their impacts on worker organizing.  NLRB General Co...

https://www.epi.org/event/nlrb-webinar/

Child labor violations are on the rise across the U.S., and in the past two years at least 16 states have considered legislation to roll back protections for young workers.

https://www.epi.org/event/the-rise-of-u-s-child-labor-and-how-we-can-fight-back/

Signs of a reinvigorated labor movement have emerged in recent years as union election petitions in 2022 rebounded from the pandemic to their highest level since 2015.

https://www.epi.org/event/labor-unions-the-middle-class-a-conversation-with-epi-the-department-of-treasury/

On September 27, 2023, Chair of the United States Council of Economic Advisers Jared Bernstein and Heidi Shierholz discussed the future of U.S.

https://www.epi.org/event/whats-next-worker-centered-policy-in-the-us-and-global-economy/

On June 7, 2023, authors Richard Rothstein and Leah Rothstein discussed their new book, Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Racial segregation characterizes every...

https://www.epi.org/event/just-action-how-to-challenge-segregation-enacted-under-the-color-of-law-with-leah-and-richard-rothstein/

Workers who are 55 and older are increasingly forced to endure onerous, even dangerous jobs that do not provide the pay and benefits needed to allow them to retire.

https://www.epi.org/event/no-way-out-older-workers-are-increasingly-trapped-in-crummy-jobs-and-unable-to-ever-retire/

Noncompete clauses in employment contracts harm workers by reducing wages and preventing them from finding new and better opportunities. They may, however, become a thing of the About one in five...

https://www.epi.org/event/noncompete-clauses-cut-worker-power-off-at-the-knees/

Join the Washington, D.C. chapter of the Labor and Employment Relations Association (DC LERA) for sandwiches and a fascinating Justin Schweitzer, the Vice President of Organizing for the Nonprofi...

https://www.epi.org/event/all-workers-are-workers-union-organizing-at-nonprofits/

The connection between work and retirement is a two-way street. Bad jobs lead to bad retirements, but retirement insecurity also forces older workers to accept bad The challenges facing older wor...

https://www.epi.org/event/americas-retirement-divide-how-black-and-hispanic-workers-fall-through-the-cracks/

The belief that employers and workers have equal power and are therefore “free to contract” continues to hold sway among employers and jurists.

https://www.epi.org/event/not-so-free-to-contract-the-flawed-notion-that-employees-and-employers-have-equal-power-undermines-workers-legal-protections/