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The Employment Policies Institute (EPI) is a fiscally conservative non-profit American think tank that conducts research on employment issues such as minimum wage and health care. EPI was established in 1991〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Employment Policies Institute )〕 and has been described as "a nonprofit research group that studies issues of entry-level employment." According to Source Watch, EPI is one of several front groups created by Richard Berman of Berman and Company, a Washington, D.C. public relations organization that lobbies for the restaurant, hotel, alcoholic beverage and tobacco industries. The Employment Policies Institute has no employees of its own. Instead, according to the ''New York Times'', Berman and Company charges the nonprofit institute for the services its employees provide to the institute. The charity evaluator Charity Navigator has issued a donor advisory concerning EPI.〔http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=13373〕 EPI should not be confused with the older, similarly named Economic Policy Institute, which is a liberal think tank advocating for low to moderate-income families in the United States. ==Issues== EPI has released a number of studies that look at the economic effects of policies (like the minimum wage, health care mandates, and employment tax credits) on low-wage labor markets. EPI also regularly analyzes job market data in the United States Typically, studies are contracted by university economists and published under EPI's name.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Truman State University )〕 The reliability of the studies sponsored by EPI has been questioned.〔 In 2009, EPI launched a campaign, Defeat The Debt, focusing on the national debt. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Employment Policies Institute」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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