Sr. Economist, Center for Economic & Policy Research. 15 years (2007-2022) as chair, Center on Wage & Employment Dynamics. University of California, Berkeley.
Oakland, CA
Joined June 2008
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Sylvia Allegretto 🎶 retweeted
🚨🚨NEW PUBLICATION:
It may feel like Americans agree on nothing right now, but recent polling tells a different story.
We've published the #MajorityAgenda—14 policy briefs grouped into three areas: Good Jobs, Strong Infrastructure, and Fair Play.
From raising the minimum wage and strengthening Social Security to affordable housing and health care reform, these progressive policies are broadly popular despite the political establishment continuing to ignore them.
Voters are in agreement on key policies that will positively benefit their lives, the environment, and the future of the US. Policy makers should consider this a roadmap. Read it for yourself: bit.ly/MajorityAgenda
#RobertoClemente from a floating island of garbage? Hell no!
Arriba Puerto Rico‼️
Sylvia Allegretto 🎶 retweeted
NEW: The pay gap for #teachers grew to a RECORD 26.6% in 2023—a significant increase from 6.1% in 1996.
✅Closing the growing #paygap between teachers & other college graduate professionals is critical to public education.
Read more from @Sly21: i.mtr.cool/omhckaguqy
ALT Line graph showing the wage penalty for public school teachers compared to other college graduates from 1979-2023. Overall, the teacher wage penalty is -26.6%, with females at -24.1% and males at -35.9%.
Sylvia Allegretto 🎶 retweeted
Closing the teacher pay gap is "a question of political will, with profound implications for our children, their families and communities, and the future of our nation," says @Sly21
epi.org/publication/teacher-…
Sylvia Allegretto 🎶 retweeted
.@Heritage is championing policies that undermine US workers' efforts to unionize—like banning card checks through #Project2025.
@sly21 and @hayleycbrown explain why card checks must be codified immediately before it's too late.
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It shouldn’t be so damn hard to exercise our right to form a union & get to the bargaining table!
.@Heritage is championing policies that undermine US workers' efforts to unionize—like banning card checks through #Project2025.
@sly21 and @hayleycbrown explain why card checks must be codified immediately before it's too late.
i.mtr.cool/cjyxdwsuxe
Sylvia Allegretto 🎶 retweeted
Hey @EmilyRPeck, we've still work to do.
While some states have raised their min wages above the fed level, 20 states—mostly concentrated in the south—are sticking to $7.25/hr. No one can live on that.
More on the fed wage floor from @Sly21: bit.ly/RaiseTheWage24
Just 13% of workers in the U.S. are now earning less than $15 an hour. Two years ago, that number was 31.9%.
Even accounting for inflation — $15 an hour in 2024 has the same buying power as about $14 in 2022 — this is remarkable progress.
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Sylvia Allegretto 🎶 retweeted
We're excited that @POTUS wants to #RaiseTheWage for public school teachers. This is incredible news, especially given the teacher pay penalty. CEPR Senior Economist @Sly21.
cepr.net/report/teacher-pay-…
“Nothing against actuaries (median salary: $113,990), but isn’t helping a first-grader learn to read as valuable as assessing insurance premiums on your Hyundai Elantra?”
I couldn’t agree more‼️
📚 A high-quality teacher is the most crucial factor in student success.
It's time for a serious jolt: Why not a $100k base salary for teachers? ⚡️
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Sectoral collective bargaining!
According to @sly21, over 12M food service workers are in the US, but just 1.7% have a union.
Building worker power takes time.
Working with @ActSecJulieSu, we could end the tipped minimum wage overnight—rescuing millions from poverty wages.
cepr.net/the-subminimum-wage…
Sylvia Allegretto 🎶 retweeted
According to @sly21, over 12M food service workers are in the US, but just 1.7% have a union.
Building worker power takes time.
Working with @ActSecJulieSu, we could end the tipped minimum wage overnight—rescuing millions from poverty wages.
cepr.net/the-subminimum-wage…
Sylvia Allegretto 🎶 retweeted
CEPR's @Sly21 points out what's driving the recent strike surge—workers are tired of a rigged playing field that lets “the rich get richer...from the pockets of hard-working folks.”
vox.com/2023/10/18/23919926/…
Sylvia Allegretto 🎶 retweeted
FTC stopping PE roll-ups that undermine fair competition & harm people & communities- suing Anesthesia Partners/PE firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe for consolidating TX anesthesia markets & driving up healthcare prices.
nytimes.com/2023/09/21/healt…
The contours of US capitalism have fundamentally tilted the economic playing field to a perilous degree for millions of workers who are now saying enough is enough. @UAW @Teamsters
NEW from @hayleycbbrown & @Sly21:
Media coverage of @UAW & others continues to miss the mark, often fixating on timing & partisan usefulness rather than CORE issues raised by striking workers across industries, such as worker rights & economic inequality.
bit.ly/3rsP1Wv
Sylvia Allegretto 🎶 retweeted
Echoes of the 2008 Great Recession still resonate. Budget cuts and privatization left a scar, rendering the public sector more fragile than imagined.
@Sly21 @hayleycbbrown @ECurchin explain in our recent report ➡️ cepr.net/report/trends-in-st…
Sylvia Allegretto 🎶 retweeted
In my latest for @jacobin I assess the Teamsters’ tentative agreement at UPS. Member organizing won important gains, but also ratcheted up expectations, leaving some feeling that they could have won more. That’s a good problem to have.
jacobin.com/2023/08/teamster…
Workers should be paid a living wage. AND—If we eliminate the sub-minimum wage pd to tipped workers (i.e. employer wage subsidy!) all tips would actually be gratuity. @ceprdc
Sylvia Allegretto and others discuss "navigating the new world of tipping." @Sly21
wbur.org/onpoint/2023/07/27/…
New York Times Headlines Article “Public Tired of ‘Neo-Liberal’ Policies Designed to Make Rich Richer” cepr.net/new-york-times-head…