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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Economic Policy Institute <newsletter@epi.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, June 4, 2017 5:05 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> annxpress@live.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Conflicts of interest cost retirement savers billions</font>
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report</a>, EPI’s Heidi Shierholz and Ben Zipperer examine—state by state—how much retirement savers lose annually as a result of receiving advice from financial advisers who have conflicts of interest. Shierholz and Zipperer find that retirement savers in
California lose nearly $1.9 billion per year; see the losses for your state <a style="color:#0090b4; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none" href="http://epi.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ec2361f981a14ee1d45cccaa9&id=96ac5af06e&e=bb10d77a5a" target="_blank">
here</a> or in the map below. On June 9, the Labor Department will partially implement the fiduciary rule—a rule that is intended to protect retirement savers from conflicted advice. However, some compliance provisions of the rule will not take effect—nor will
the rule be enforced—until January 1, 2018; and even then, its future is uncertain. Only if the rule is fully implemented and enforced will workers saving for retirement be able to reap the full benefits of a lifetime of work.
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EPI’s Celine McNicholas and Marni von Wilpert <a style="color:#0090b4; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none" href="http://epi.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=ec2361f981a14ee1d45cccaa9&id=2cdb3f050f&e=bb10d77a5a">
examine the joint employer standard</a> under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), explaining why a strong joint employer standard is essential to protecting workers’ rights to organize and bargain collectively. In the modern workplace, workers often have
multiple employers controlling their wages and working conditions—and all of those employers must be at the bargaining table to meaningfully address workers’ concerns.
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<em>The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America</em></a>. Ted Shaw of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law and Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) will join Rothstein to discuss the history of state-sponsored
residential segregation and its enduring effects. <a style="color:#0090b4; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none" href="http://epi.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ec2361f981a14ee1d45cccaa9&id=bdf6c1d8df&e=bb10d77a5a">
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<strong>From the EPI blog</strong></h2>
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<li><a style="color:#0090b4; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none" href="http://epi.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ec2361f981a14ee1d45cccaa9&id=bfea6796f4&e=bb10d77a5a">Unemployment rate fell in May for the wrong reasons: Slack still remains</a><br>
<span style="font-size:14px">By Elise Gould</span> </li></ul>
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<li><a style="color:#0090b4; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none" href="http://epi.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ec2361f981a14ee1d45cccaa9&id=29cf6aae0b&e=bb10d77a5a">What to Watch on Jobs Day? Hopeful signs of stronger wage growth</a><br>
<span style="font-size:14px">By Elise Gould</span> </li></ul>
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<li><a style="color:#0090b4; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none" href="http://epi.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=ec2361f981a14ee1d45cccaa9&id=2644a47106&e=bb10d77a5a">Under new bill’s election standard, unions would never win an election—and neither
would the bill’s cosponsors</a><br>
<span style="font-size:14px">By Zane Mokhiber, Celine McNicholas</span> </li></ul>
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<li><a style="color:#0090b4; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none" href="http://epi.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=ec2361f981a14ee1d45cccaa9&id=7db5cc9ff1&e=bb10d77a5a">H-2B crabpickers are so important to the Maryland seafood industry that they get paid
$3 less per hour than the state or local average wage</a><br>
<span style="font-size:14px">By Daniel Costa</span> </li></ul>
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<li><a style="color:#0090b4; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none" href="http://epi.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ec2361f981a14ee1d45cccaa9&id=26c5160d09&e=bb10d77a5a">Policy Watch: Trump budget weakens protections for working people</a><br>
<span style="font-size:14px">By Heidi Shierholz, Celine McNicholas</span> </li></ul>
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<li><a style="color:#0090b4; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none" href="http://epi.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ec2361f981a14ee1d45cccaa9&id=91b33956bf&e=bb10d77a5a">Costs will still rise significantly and coverage will still fall considerably under
the new AHCA</a><br>
<span style="font-size:14px">By Elise Gould</span> </li></ul>
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In a story about robots and the future of work, <a style="color:#0090b4; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none" href="http://epi.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ec2361f981a14ee1d45cccaa9&id=7c42b35b21&e=bb10d77a5a">
<em>The Atlantic</em></a> quoted from EPI’s recent <a style="color:#0090b4; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none" href="http://epi.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ec2361f981a14ee1d45cccaa9&id=dd30e86801&e=bb10d77a5a">
report</a> arguing that automation does not lead to joblessness or inequality. “Capital investment in the workplace has grown more slowly since 2002 than in any other postwar period,” according to the report’s authors, Lawrence Mishel and Josh Bivens. “This
is the opposite of what we would expect with a looming robot apocalypse based on automation accelerating exponentially.” |
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So, Where Are All Those Robots? »</a></p>
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EPI’s Lawrence Mishel spoke with <a style="color:#0090b4; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none" href="http://epi.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=ec2361f981a14ee1d45cccaa9&id=1ae092e1a2&e=bb10d77a5a">
CNN Money</a> about Mark Zuckerberg’s call for universal basic income—a guaranteed minimum income for every citizen. “It’s a misguided mission,” said Mishel. “It’s a tech CEO view of the world that I think is distorted.”|
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Mark Zuckerberg supports universal basic income. What is it? »</a></p>
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<em>The Color of Law</em></a>, which finds that segregation in the U.S. was driven by racially explicit federal, state, and local policies—not by individual prejudices. |
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The Racial Segregation of American Cities Was Anything But Accidental »</a></p>
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The <a style="color:#0090b4; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none" href="http://epi.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ec2361f981a14ee1d45cccaa9&id=3da805051a&e=bb10d77a5a">
<em>St. Louis Post-Dispatch</em></a> covered EPI’s analysis of the Trump administration’s delay of the fiduciary rule, noting that Missouri investors lost $73.4 million during the 60-day delay. |
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Study says investors could lose big if Trump administration deep-sixes ‘fiduciary rule’ »</a></p>
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EPI’s Josh Bivens spoke with the <a style="color:#0090b4; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none" href="http://epi.us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=ec2361f981a14ee1d45cccaa9&id=667b297ffe&e=bb10d77a5a">
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