Labor laws, including those around collective bargaining, have been weakened, according to the left-leaning think tank the Economic Policy Institute.
NorthJersey.com
September 2, 2025
The harder question, perhaps, is whether parents should actively contribute to the accounts over the next 18 years.
“It’s free money. The question is whether you would add onto it,” said Monique Morrissey, a senior economist at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
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Morrissey predicts Trump Accounts will become “a niche thing,” favored by parents with large portfolios and paid investment advisers. “I don’t think these are going to take off in a big way,” she said.
USA Today
September 2, 2025
The US is the only OECD country that does not have any statutory leave. It has 11 public holidays, but according to Adewale Maye, many industries such as retail, tourism and transportation still operate during public holidays as workers are not guaranteed paid days off.
He points to all the other OECD countries that provide statutory vacation days without damaging their economies. “These economies have done well for themselves while also allowing workers the right to rest,” he said.
He says that is one of the central arguments against President Trump’s hypothesis that the US has too many “non-working holidays.”
“Working more has never been the issue in the United States,” he said. “Building an economy where all workers and their families can feel supported, secure, and can thrive is.”
Deutsche Welle
September 2, 2025
And according to the Economic Policy Institute, Black women in unions earn about 30 percent more than their non-union counterparts.
Forbes
September 2, 2025
Similar findings come from the Economic Policy Institute. It estimated in 2019 that those ages 32 to 37 had saved around $31,644.
Investopedia
September 2, 2025
To get a better picture of what might make an area least vulnerable to natural hazards and still boast the creature comforts of basic infrastructure, NerdWallet set a population control of at least 100,000 people. It includes the annual cost of living in 2023 dollars, according to the Economic Policy Institute’s Family Budget Calculator for households comprising two adults and two children.
NerdWallet
September 2, 2025
In fact, according to the Economic Policy Institute, 16 million more workers joined unions in 2024, and millions more wanted to join unions but couldn’t.
Rising Up with Sonali
September 2, 2025
“The Economic Policy Institute finds that over 800,000 Wisconsin workers make less than $20 per hour, or nearly one-third of the workforce.”
Capitol Times
September 2, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute; if every worker had the chance to vote in a union election today, union membership would rise by 60 million. That would push union density from 9.9% to nearly 46% of the U.S. workforce
Forbes
September 2, 2025
“There is a huge disconnect between Trump’s pro-worker rhetoric and the policies he’s putting in place. The gulf is enormous,” said Heidi Shierholz, president of the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive thinktank. “In his second term, he’s been absolutely, brazenly anti-worker.”
“I keep thinking about his taking away the Biden-era increase in the minimum wage for federal contractors. It’s unbelievably brazen,” Shierholz continued. (Trump ended the requirement that federal contractors pay their workers at least $17.75 an hour.) “The minimum wage is incredibly popular. He just took away the minimum wage from hundreds of thousands of workers. That blew my mind.” As a result, many full-time workers will see their pay drop by more than $9,200 a year.
The Guardian
September 2, 2025