Poverty
The Presidency
Unemployment
Trade Policy

COVID-19 has exacerbated poverty in the U.S., spreading and deepening it along preexisting fissures of inequality. If America’s leaders do not address this crisis with visionary social and economic policy, the health and well-being of the nation is at stake. Read more

We at EPI encourage the incoming administration to focus on building worker power, fighting for racial justice, and making the transformational changes we need to invest in America. This is not a time for timidity or austerity. This is a time for courage and ambition. Read more

More than one million people applied for unemployment insurance (UI) benefits in the week ending Nov. 7: 709,000 for regular state UI and 298,000 for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance. This was the 34th straight week total initial claims were far greater than the worst week of the Great Recession. Read more

Job losses due to growing U.S. trade deficits hit manufacturing industries particularly hard, shrinking the share of middle-class jobs available to workers without a college degree. This report examines a two-pronged strategy for rebuilding the domestic economy and restoring American manufacturing. Read the report

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