Minnesota stands out for its strong safety net, low unemployment, and consistent investment in education. Research from the Economic Policy Institute shows the state ranks high in worker protections and union density. These factors contribute to more evenly distributed prosperity across communities.
Bolde
December 19, 2025
In that regard, the Charleston region may prove critical. The area is home to roughly 11,000 federal employees, the largest concentration of federal workers in South Carolina, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Labor Notes
December 19, 2025
Hearst TV
December 19, 2025
The big picture: More than 8.3 million workers will see their pay go up on Jan. 1. That includes both those getting a direct increase and others indirectly affected when companies adjust wage ladders, according to an estimate from the progressive Economic Policy Institute.
Stunning stat: For the first time, there will be more workers in states with a minimum wage of $15 an hour or higher than those with the federal minimum of $7.25.
Axios
December 19, 2025
If the Trump administration hits its stated target of deporting 4 million people over four years, the direct care workforce could shrink by roughly 394,000 jobs — 274,000 positions held by immigrants and 120,000 held by United States-born workers — according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute.
That kind of contraction would tighten the supply of frontline in-home care workers who help older adults and people with disabilities stay safe at home, the institute said in a blog post. This could potentially force more families to scramble for unpaid caregiving arrangements at the same time demand for home- and community-based support continues to rise.
McKnight’s Senior Living
December 19, 2025
Nationally, since February, nearly 600,000 Black women have forcibly exited the labor force and a report released this year from the Economic Policy Institute found that unemployment rates among Black women in South Carolina this year increased to 7.5%—the highest unemployment rate since 2021.
Prism Reports
December 19, 2025
On any given day, educators are planners, safety monitors, counselors, mentors, and liaisons with families. Yet teachers earn 26% less than other professionals with similar education (Economic Policy Institute, 2022).
Forbes
December 19, 2025
Wage theft is the second-most common workplace violation and costs workers $4 billion a year, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Supermarket News
December 19, 2025
At least 40 localities — including states, counties, and cities — have established reparations initiatives as of December 2024, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit economic policy think tank.
Roanoke Rambler
December 19, 2025
And on Tuesday, new government data pointed to large federal job losses in recent months, some 162,000 jobs in October and a further 6,000 last month.
“Federal government employment is down by 271,000 since reaching a peak in January,” the Bureau of Labor Statistics said.
“The cost of these losses are only beginning to be felt,” Elise Gould, an economist with the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, said Tuesday.
Dayton Daily News
December 19, 2025