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• Driver-sharing program keeps Tuolumne County school buses on schedule

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  Union Democrat | May 20, 2026
• ‘Pretty disheartening’: Lawyer addresses gender pay gap changes during discussion

  Brown, who regularly works on these cases, said the number regressed last year. Forbes has reported that the gap is widening and the left-wing Economic Policy Institute said women were paid 18.6% less hourly than men on average in 2025.

  KCRG (Iowa) | May 20, 2026
• Gary Stevenson says ‘your kids will be poorer than you’ — as U.S. income inequality widens

  Tax cuts aren’t the only reason for this growing disparity. Income inequality has “skyrocketed” over the past three-and-a-half decades due to “intentional policy choices that suppressed wages for typical families to accelerate income growth at the top,” according to the Economic Policy Institute (6). By its calculations, middle-class household incomes “would be roughly $30,000 higher today if their incomes had simply kept pace with average income growth since 1979.”

  MoneyWise | May 20, 2026
• The Needle: DMV Hit Hard by Job Losses, Politicians Against Data Centers, Family Caregivers Hit Hard, and SNAP Enrollment Is Way Down

  City of lost jobs: A new study from the Economic Policy Institute confirms what we already knew, convicted felon and President Donald Trump’s policies are disproportionately impacting employment in the D.C. area and hitting Black workers the hardest. EPI reports that the region has 115,000 fewer jobs than it did before Trump V2, losing more than 53,800 federal employees and others laid off from contractors working for government agencies and those working at nonprofits or research institutions receiving federal grants. Minus two points, one for racist policies and one for gutting jobs in your own backyard.

  Washington City Paper | May 20, 2026
• Landmark Study Finds Trump’s Mass Deportation Agenda Is Costing Americans Jobs

  NPER’s study echoes an analysis released last month by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), which found that unemployment for US-born workers has increased since the start of Trump’s second term, as the federal government has carried out its draconian deportation operations.

  “Claims that mass deportations have helped US-born workers are simply inconsistent with the data,” EPI wrote. “This is no surprise, given that economic research has repeatedly shown that increased immigration enforcement harms everyone in the labor market, including US-born workers.”

  Common Dreams | May 20, 2026
• Jamie Dimon says markets have ‘too much exuberance’ – joining forecasters like Michael Burry in warning the stock market party may be winding down

  Right now, Dimon isn’t worried about consumer spending. However, he highlights a split between the top 50% and the bottom 30% of spenders, who are “struggling a little bit” thanks to stagnant wages. This claim is supported by 2025 data from the Economic Policy Institute, which shows real wages for low-income workers declined 0.3%. (4)

  MoneyWise | May 20, 2026
• DC has lost 115,000 jobs since Trump returned to the White House

  The Washington DC region has lost approximately 115,000 jobs since President Donald Trump returned to the White House, with African American workers being the hardest hit by the cuts, according to a study by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) released today by WTOP .

  The report prepared by the nonpartisan organization based in Washington DC documented that the proportion of the population with employment fell 3.2 percentage points in the DMV, a figure eight times higher than the national average.

  El Tiempo Latino | May 20, 2026

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