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• Bloomberg Markets 10/7/2025

  “Bloomberg Markets” follows the market moves across every global asset class and discusses the biggest issues for Wall Street. Today’s guest: Economic Policy Institute President Heidi Shierholz. 

  Bloomberg TV | October 8, 2025
• Pueblo’s one of the best places in the US to retire. How much do you need to retire here?

  Citing data from the U.S. Census and the Economic Policy Institute’s (EPI) Family Budget Calculator, the report notes that the median monthly expenses in Pueblo County are about $1,083 for housing and $608 for food, while median monthly taxes in Pueblo County are $612.

  Pueblo Chieftain | October 8, 2025
• St. Paul incubator will help Latinas overcome barriers to launching child care businesses

  Minnesota ranks third nationally for the cost of child care, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C., think tank. Parents pay more than $22,000 a year, on average for infant care, and as much as $40,000 a year for an infant and a toddler.

  Sahan Journal | October 8, 2025
• Pa. House again passes bill to give unemployment benefits to striking workers

  Estimates from the Economic Policy Institute — a liberal-leaning research group that has supported unemployment pay during strikes — suggest that such a policy would increase unemployment payouts by only about a tenth of a percent, based on current strike rates.

  PennLive | October 8, 2025
• NRCA Urges Roofing Professionals to Back Workforce Visa Bill

  Labor advocates have voiced caution based on the H-2B visa program, which serves seasonal industries.

  The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) reports that wages certified for H-2B workers were up to 24.7 percent lower than national averages for comparable jobs, and that employers in major H-2B industries collectively committed more than $2.2 billion in wage-theft violations between 2000 and 2024.

  Roofing Contractor | October 8, 2025
• One Megabill for the Megarich

  “The bill is designed to cause a shocking upward redistribution of income,” Heidi Shierholz, president of the Economic Policy Institute, wrote on the organization’s website. “Because … cuts to healthcare and food assistance are so broad and deep, and because the tax cuts for anybody who is not already rich are so paltry, the bill will cause the bottom 40 percent of households to actually lose income on average. … Meanwhile, households in the top 0.1 percent (those making more than $3.3 million per year) will gain $100,000-plus annually under this bill.”

  Ms. Magazine | October 8, 2025
• New private data shows slow hiring

  Because these firms are limited in how they’re able to collect information, Elise Gould, senior economist with the Economic Policy Institute, takes these reports with a small grain of salt compared to federal data.

  “ It’s not that they’re less trustworthy,” she said. “It’s that they don’t provide the same kind of comprehensive picture month after month, year after year, that we’re able to compare over time.”

  The government data is just richer, Gould said. “We get very accurate information about demographics. So everything from race and gender to education level to where they live.”

  Marketplace | October 8, 2025

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