The Employment Policies Institute focuses on labor issues and, especially, the debate over the minimum and living wages. Its studies nearly all conclude that raising the minimum wage would be detrimental to low-income workers and to the economy generally. The group further maintains that the “living wage campaign” amounts to “an organized effort to force employees to inject a welfare mentality into the workplace.” The executive director and president of the organization, Richard Berman, whose Berman and Company Inc. operates the group, has lobbied in the past on behalf of business interests such as restaurant operators and food producers.

 

The Employment Policy Institute’s publications are fully searchable, though new publications appear somewhat infrequently.