Cole Rockarts:
Correct. And I’ll just say to your listeners, the Economic Policy Institute put out this amazing report about what would change if union density in the US was higher. And the reality is we would have healthcare. We would have about, give or take, 7,000 extra dollars a year in your pocket. And I don’t know about anyone else on this call, but I think people could use 7,000 plus dollars a year.
Maximillian Alvarez:
And that’s $7,000 a year that you would get in your contract versus the kind of fantastical fake $5,000 that President Trump is promising you if you just believe him and vote the way he wants in the midterms.
The Real News Network
October 2, 2026
Despite Greer’s claims that these tariff policies are boosting industrial employment, data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics compiled by the Economic Policy Institute shows that some, 62,000 manufacturing jobs have been lost since Trump took office for his second term in January 2025.
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
October 2, 2026
Quote: “It’s just really hard for workers to enter or reenter the labor market.”—Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, on the rise of long-term joblessness among Americans, despite a low unemployment rate (Bloomberg)
HR Brew
October 2, 2026
The bill is supported by the National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care, SEIU, National Nurses United…Economic Policy Institute.
McKnight’s Senior Living
October 2, 2026
Josh Bivens is the chief economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan nonprofit think-tank that researches working class economic issues. He told KERA in an email that cost of living is not just a price issue — it’s a race between income growth and prices.
“I would also note that the price of pet ownership has risen much faster than overall inflation for years, and, that’s likely a steady pressure here regardless of what is happening to overall cost of living concerns,” he said.
Bivens added that, since 2000, the price index for “pet services, including veterinary care” has risen more than twice as fast as overall inflation.
Over the last two years, the United States has seen an uptick in price inflation due to the Iran War and tariff effects paired with a deceleration in wage growth, hitting lowest-wage workers the hardest, Bivens said.
KERA (Dallas NPR)
October 2, 2026
Black women built middle-class careers in public service, and in 2025 those careers were cut. Black women lost roughly 95,000 federal jobs last year, and their employment rate fell 1.4 percentage points, one of the sharpest one-year drops in a quarter century, according to the Economic Policy Institute. College-educated Black women took the biggest hit, a 3.5-point drop. Their unemployment rate climbed from 5.8% to 6.7%.
Black Enterprise
October 2, 2026
According to the Economic Policy Institute, a two-parent, two-child family in a small city such as Hanford, California, would need $8,417 per month to cover the cost of living, compared with more than twice that amount $19,275 for the same family in San Francisco.
Live NOW from FOX
October 2, 2026
The Florida Policy Institute (FPI) has tracked the implementation of the minimum wage and how it compares to a livable wage since 2020.
The FPI estimates that, statewide, a living hourly wage ranges from $19.57 for a single person without children to $34.10 for two adults with one child.
FPI relies on the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) — which analyzed the 2015-2019 American Community Survey U.S. Census data, wage data from the 2025 U.S. Census Bureau, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics — for its workforce estimates of people earning less than $15 an hour.
Florida Phoenix
October 2, 2026
“There has been a general trend toward working more at older ages,” said Monique Morrissey, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute. ”But it was interrupted by COVID. And some of those people came back, but a lot of them didn’t.”
USA Today
October 2, 2026
Twenty to 25 years ago, Colvin says, only 10 to 20 percent of companies had such clauses. While some companies, like Microsoft, choose to forgo such policies, more and more are implementing them. The Economic Policy Institute reported that in 2017, 55 percent of American workers were subject to mandatory arbitration. Some projections estimate the number today is more than 80 percent.
USA Today
October 2, 2026