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
It’s taken an unconscionably long time, however, for the Democrats to truly reckon with the post-1980 changes to the American economy. Part of their failure was intellectual, an inability to see what was actually happening to their country. More precisely, most refused to look at the evidence of that change: The Economic Policy Institute’s famous chart of the growing gap, first emerging in the late 1970s, between increases in productivity and in median wages was published in 1994, but had little to no effect on the economic policies of either the Clinton or Obama presidencies.
The American Prospect
June 8, 2026
WAILIN WONG: And I’m Wailin Wong. And it is jobs Friday. It’s the day each month where we look at the latest government jobs report and we check in with how American workers are doing.
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WONG: Yeah, and Black women in particular really felt the effects of the mass layoffs and buyouts we saw with federal workforce last year. I read an analysis from the Economic Policy Institute. That’s a think tank that advocates for low and middle income working families. And the EPI says that Black women suffered the greatest job losses in 2025. Its analysis also shows that the overall net loss was driven entirely by cuts in public sector jobs.
NPR Planet Money
June 8, 2026
“After several months of bumpy employment growth, it’s encouraging to see three months of stronger growth,” Elise Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, wrote in a social media post. “Given this unexpected strength, some may question the validity of the data. At this point, there are no signs that these numbers are cooked or fabricated.”
Gould noted that job growth was strongest in leisure and hospitality, state and local governments, and health care.
Sinclair Broadcast Group
June 8, 2026