Child Care in Maryland is expensive and hard to find. A new report by the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal think tank, ranks Maryland as the eleventh most expensive state for child care.
WYPR
March 18, 2025
By the numbers: In San Antonio-area congressional districts, veterans make up a sizable share of civilian federal employment, per new data from the Economic Policy Institute.
- In Texas’ 23rd Congressional District, represented by Republican U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, about 7,500 veterans account for about 48% of the federal workforce.
Axios San Antonio
March 18, 2025
And it’s hard to see how these ultra rich folks can be advocates for the economic interests of most Americans. While members of Trump’s government have become extremely wealthy, the standard of living for our middle class has continued to decline during the last four decades. American workers are now 81% more productive than they were 45 years ago, according to the Economic Policy Institute, yet their wages have grown by only 29%.
The Oklahoman
March 18, 2025
The Economic Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C., think tank, called arbitration agreements an “epidemic”, depriving workers and consumers of their rights. As one judge opined, these agreements give corporations a “get out of jail free” card for all potential transgressions.
Denver Post
March 17, 2025
The law says H1-B workers are supposed to be paid the prevailing wage for their job, based on the Department of Labor statistics. In reality, the Economic Policy Institute found that 60 percent of H-1B positions were assigned wage levels well below the local median wage for the occupation.
The American Conservative
March 17, 2025
The town with the most unequal income in the US has long been a billionaire hideout. According to the Economic Policy Institute, the top 1% of residents in the metro area earn 132 times the income of the bottom 99% of residents. The average income of the top 1% sits above a cool $16 million.
Business Insider
March 17, 2025
The federal workforce in the Oklahoma City region represents nearly 4% of all jobs there, one of the highest levels for any big city beyond metro Washington, according to a review of federal data by the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute.
Wall Street Journal
March 17, 2025
In an effort to disseminate facts about labor market trends more broadly, the Economic Policy Institute has constructed the State of Working America Data Library, which allows users to easily browse and collate detailed data on wages, incomes, and employment. We hope this tool fosters a broadly shared understanding of the labor market changes we need to achieve a fairer society.
The Briefing Book (Substack)
March 17, 2025
It’s tricky math. To make up the difference, and “to beat Social Security’s quote-unquote return, you’d have to be investing in the stock market,” said Robert Brokamp, a senior adviser at The Motley Fool.
And the stock market is notoriously mercurial, as events of recent days have reminded us.
“So, it’s pure gambling — and really dumb for most people — to assume they’ll beat this high, guaranteed return by investing in the stock market,” said Monique Morrissey, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute. “I would not encourage anyone to do this, except Elon Musk.”
USA Today
March 17, 2025
HR 1968 gives the “Trump administration significantly more leeway to spend federal dollars without Congressional approval,” according to the Economic Policy Institute, as well as preventing any member of Congress from attempting to terminate Trump’s recent declaration of national emergencies over immigration and the U.S. border.
UPI
March 17, 2025