Features interview with Ben Zipperer on new minimum wage proposal.
Rick Smith Show
June 9, 2026
Maybe investors were as unimpressed with the top-line economic numbers from the jobs report as EPI senior economist Elise Gould was. Gould took to Bluesky to highlight that despite the 172,000 jobs added in the month, nominal wage growth “continued to decelerate, further exacerbating affordability as prices rise.” Gould highlighted that since President Donald Trump took office in January 2025, the manufacturing sector has shed 68,000 jobs, and the federal government has cut another 333,000 jobs.
The Street
June 9, 2026
According to the Economic Policy Institute, the top 1 percent captured 77.5 percent of the state’s income growth between 2009 and 2015. Yet alongside Florida’s newly minted deep-red status, there have still been internal calls for progressive reform.
Dissent Magazine
June 9, 2026
On this episode of America’s Work Force Union Podcast, LaborLab founder Bob Funk breaks down a new report produced with the Economic Policy Institute on the scale and structure of the union avoidance industry — from the law firms that drag out contract negotiations for years to the healthcare systems spending millions on union busters while patients wait for beds.
America's Work Force Union Podcast
June 9, 2026
Chattanooga Times Free Press
June 9, 2026
That’s partly due to women being paid less than men: Per the Economic Policy Institute, in 2025, “women were paid 18.6% less than men on average after controlling for race and ethnicity, education, age, marital status, and state.” Also, “Women are paid less than men across all education levels. Women with a graduate degree earn less, on average, than men with only a college degree.”
Motley Fool
June 8, 2026
Cohen’s experience isn’t a fluke. A 2025 report from the National Education Association found that starting teacher salaries nationwide still fall well below the average earnings of other jobs requiring a college degree. Research from the Economic Policy Institute found that teachers earn about 27% less, on average, than comparably educated workers, a gap that has widened significantly over the past few decades.
Upworthy
June 8, 2026
Supporters are also citing a new study from Movement Economics, an Oakland-based research firm, that used government data and economic modeling to project the impact of a countywide wage increase.
The study was reviewed by economists from the Economic Policy Institute and UC Berkeley.
“What they found was that it would be a net positive for the county — about 1,800 new jobs, about $1 billion in net impact on the GDP, $529 million in new tax revenue, and it would give a raise to about one in five workers in the county,” Jayaraman said.
KTVU-TV
June 8, 2026
When workers feel like they are valued, they perform better. It sounds blatant, but research suggests that many American companies are not showing their workers they appreciate them through the most obvious medium: Their wages. In fact, in 2022, the Economic Policy Institute and the Shift Project created a wage tracker, which found that many restaurant chains, including McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Pizza Hut, and Arby’s, were paying most of their employees less than $15 an hour. For context: The lowest average living wage in the U.S. (in West Virginia) is $19.53, while in Hawaii, it’s just over $31.01.
Tasting Table
June 8, 2026