• Statement by EPI President Lawrence Mishel on President Obama’s support for a higher minimum wage

  February 13, 2013 | By Lawrence Mishel | Quick Takes

• President Obama throws his support behind increasing the minimum wage

  February 13, 2013 | By Doug Hall | Blog

• How raising Maryland’s minimum wage will benefit workers and boost the state’s economy

  January 31, 2013 | By Doug Hall and David Cooper | Blog

• Guestworker expansions don’t belong in comprehensive immigration reform

  January 30, 2013 | By Ross Eisenbrey | Blog

• Vast majority of wage earners are working harder, and for not much more: Trends in U.S. work hours and wages over 1979–2007

  January 30, 2013 | By Lawrence Mishel | Report

• What we read today

  January 29, 2013 | Blog

• Earnings of the top 1.0 percent rebound strongly in the recovery

  January 23, 2013 | By Lawrence Mishel and Nicholas Finio | Report

• Are the job polarization data robust?

  January 18, 2013 | By Heidi Shierholz | Blog

• Occupation employment trends and wage inequality: What the long view tells us

  January 15, 2013 | By Lawrence Mishel | Blog

• What we read today

  January 14, 2013 | Blog

• Missing in action: Growth and shared prosperity

  January 14, 2013 | By Lawrence Mishel | Blog

• Timing matters: Can job polarization explain wage trends?

  January 14, 2013 | By Lawrence Mishel | Blog

• Job polarization in the 2000s?

  January 14, 2013 | By John Schmitt | Blog

• Assessing the job polarization explanation of growing wage inequality

  January 11, 2013 | By Lawrence Mishel, John Schmitt, and Heidi Shierholz | Report

• What we read today

  January 8, 2013 | Blog

• Strengthening the EITC and raising the minimum wage should go hand-in-hand

  January 7, 2013 | By David Cooper | Blog

• Minimum wage indexing protects nearly a million low-wage workers this New Year

  December 26, 2012 | By David Cooper | Blog

• If you’re writing about the ‘fiscal cliff,’ you need to read The State of Working America

  December 18, 2012 | By Josh Bivens | Blog

• What we read today

  December 17, 2012 | Blog

• What we read today

  December 7, 2012 | Blog

• An economy that works for the middle class won’t happen on its own

  December 6, 2012 | By Rebecca Thiess | Blog

• Pulling Apart: A state-by-state analysis of income trends

  November 15, 2012 | By Elizabeth McNichol, Doug Hall, David Cooper, and Vincent Palacios | Report

• One million veterans would benefit from raising the minimum wage to $9.80

  November 13, 2012 | By David Cooper | Blog

• The rise of the top 1 percent—not the same everywhere

  October 24, 2012 | By Josh Bivens | Economic snapshot

• Schumer’s spot on: 1986 is the wrong model for tax reform

  October 23, 2012 | By Andrew Fieldhouse | Blog

• Walmart strikes dramatize third-world inequities

  October 11, 2012 | By Ross Eisenbrey | Blog

• Real hourly wage growth: The last generation

  October 10, 2012 | By Lawrence Mishel and Colin Gordon | Blog

• The 10-year decline in wages for most college graduates

  October 3, 2012 | By Lawrence Mishel | Economic snapshot

• Another right-wing attack on public workers

  September 28, 2012 | By Monique Morrissey | Blog

• Share of households owning stocks declined over the last decade

  September 28, 2012 | By Heidi Shierholz | Blog