Washington D.C. -- Today, the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) released the results of a new poll conducted by Google Consumer Surveys finding that the majority of New York State residents oppose Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposed $15 minimum wage when its consequences are explained. Activists have jumped on a new Quinnipiac poll finding that 62 percent of New Yorkers support a consequence-free $15 minimum wage to […]

Washington D.C. -- Today, the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) announced a new billboard going up in the heart of Times Square calling out Gov. Cuomo’s $15 minimum wage for fast food employees. The ad, which can be found on Broadway south of W 46th St., is part of EPI’s new digital and print advertising campaign called “Fast Food Flop” that highlights the unfairness and consequences of the dramatic wage […]

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) called for skepticism of a forthcoming Sacramento minimum wage study by a team of biased researchers affiliated with UC-Berkeley. Their report supporting a minimum wage increase in Sacramento is expected to be released next week. In an op-ed in today’s Sacramento Bee, EPI Research Director Michael Saltsman explains why the Berkeley study should be greeted with skepticism […]

A "peer review" of three Los Angeles minimum wage studies will be presented to the City Council's Economic Development Committee next week. An early copy was obtained and publicized last night by KPCC. The "peer review" favors the study by a team of labor union-affiliated researchers at UC-Berkeley's Labor Center and Institute for Research on Labor & Employment. Yet the peer reviewers themselves appear to have […]

WASHINGTON - Today, the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) highlighted the devastating impact that Oakland’s new $12.25 minimum wage is having on the city’s Chinatown district. It was reported in the San Francisco Chronicle this weekend that at least ten businesses in and around Chinatown, including four restaurants and six grocery stores, have closed in part due to the 36 percent wage hike. The impact of Oakland’s […]

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 […]