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A proposed ballot measure to increase the California minimum wage to $18 an hour by 2025 would build on existing minimum wage policies and raise pay for around five million California workers, according to two separate reports from UC Berkeley researchers.
A new joint Labor Center/CWED analysis finds that a Massachusetts measure proposed by Uber, Lyft, and several delivery network companies would create a subminimum wage of as little as $4.82 an hour.
New analysis from CWED finds that raising the minimum wage to $15/hour would generate an estimated $21.2 billion in additional tax revenues and $44.2 billion in savings.
New research from CWED finds that minimum wage changes since 1990 reduced 2019 racial wage gaps by 60 percent among less-educated workers.
Given rising COVID-19 cases and widespread relaxing of public health guidelines, CSCCE researchers caution against drawing broad conclusions about the safety of child care from a recently released study conducted in the early months of the pandemic.
Teachers’ wages and compensation continue to remain far below that of comparable workers. The penalty improved 2.8 percentage-points in 2019 from the previous year; teacher strikes may have played a role.
New study from CWED and the Labor Center explains pandemic-related economic impact is not a traditional recession. The dangers of “getting back to work” apply to both our health and our economy.
The COVID-19 pandemic is having a devastating economic and human impact on California child care centers, forcing hundreds of them to close, while others remain open at the risk of illness to both children and staff, according to a new report from the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment.
A new study examining pay of over 16,000 Uber and Lyft drivers in Seattle finds that drivers net about $9.73 per hour, much less than Seattle’s $16.39 minimum wage.
As Governor Newsom promises returning workers access to child care, early results from a new study from the University of California, Berkeley show that many California child care programs won’t be able to survive unless they receive financial relief.
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and minimum wage work together to reduce poverty and raise incomes, according to a new report by IRLE director Jesse Rothstein and Ben Zipperer
University of California, Berkeley labor experts are available as media resources for Labor Day 2019 stories
A new report released jointly by the Economic Policy Institute and the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment (CSCCE) at the University of California, Berkeley, estimates the true cost of a high-quality early care and education (ECE) system.
A $15 federal minimum wage will not create job loss in low-wage states in the U.S. but, in fact, will offer more opportunities for workers and their families to lift themselves out of poverty.
Over half of California private sector employees age 25-64 aren’t enrolled in a retirement savings plan or pension, according to a new data brief by Nari Rhee, director of the
A new study by UC Berkeley researchers in the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that modestly increasing wage supports for low-wage workers could save over 1,200 lives each year.
Bold legislative action on health insurance would benefit 3.6M Californians, according to new analysis from the Labor Center and UCLA.
Teachers were paid 21.4 percent less in weekly wages than similar U.S. college graduates in 2018, according to a new analysis by Sylvia Allegretto and EPI’s Larry Mishel.
Michael Reich, co-chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics (CWED) at UC Berkeley, will testify at the first House of Representatives hearing Feb. 7 to raise the federal minimum wage. The bill, HR 582, proposes to increase the federal minimum wage in six steps, from its current $7.25 level to $15 by 2024.
New research from the Labor Center and the National Institute on Retirement Security shows that existing pension benefits provide most teachers more secure retirement income compared to a cost-equivalent 401(k)-style
New research from The Shift Project at IRLE explores the work and family lives of low-wage workers in the state of Washington.
A new study projects how changes to federal law that remove the Affordable Care Act individual mandate penalty in 2019 could significantly impact California’s record-breaking health coverage gains.
Low-income, high-achieving high school students in California may utilize millions of dollars more in Cal Grant funds, according to early findings from a letter redesign study conducted by the California
New UC Berkeley report looking at job quality in a meal-kit fulfillment center finds workers struggling with low-wages, unpredictable schedules, workplace-related injuries, and sexual assault.