And because of the severity of cuts to Medicaid and food assistance, the lowest-earning 40% of American households would lose income, on average, according to the Washington-based Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank.
The CT Mirror
August 13, 2025
Here are some of the sources I currently rely on for the truth: Democracy Now, Business Insider, The New Yorker, The American Prospect, The Atlantic, Americans for Tax Fairness, Economic Policy Institute, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, The Guardian, ProPublica, Labor Notes, The Lever, Popular Information, Heather Cox Richardson, and, of course, this Substack.
Robert Reich Substack
August 13, 2025
- Reduced reliance on government assistance: As of 2025, the federal minimum wage is considered a “poverty wage,” according to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). A single, full-time working adult earning $7.25 per hour now falls below the poverty threshold of $15,650. Raising the minimum wage to match inflation could lift millions above the poverty line and reduce dependence on safety net programs like food stamps and Medicaid, ChatGPT said.
GO Banking Rates
August 13, 2025
Director of Immigration Law and Policy Research at the Economic Policy Institute Daniel Costa doubts that net migration will be negative in 2025 but thinks it will be soon.
“I am skeptical that we will see negative net migration in the first year, just based on some of the legal immigration flows… which might take longer for the administration to impact,” Costa told The Center Square. “But I do think we will likely see it in the next years of the administration, especially after the major influx of $170 billion the administration has been gifted from Congress for immigration enforcement.”
The Center Square
August 13, 2025
“Antoni has repeatedly and unfairly attacked the agency he’d be set to run, contributed to the right-wing Project 2025 policy blueprint, and in his role at the Heritage Foundation has stretched the truth about the economy to make partisan political claims,” said Josh Bivens, chief economist at the Economic Policy Institute.
Common Dreams
August 13, 2025
The male Gen-Z worker has, on average, had a higher rate of unemployment since the pandemic, Business Insider contends, and it boils down to the way young female workers are dominant in a few key areas of the job market. Elise Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, explained to the news outlet that right now the hiring situation means it may be “tougher for men who are looking for jobs where there’s just not a whole lot of hiring,” partly because “employers are holding steady with the workers they have, and workers are also holding steady in their roles.”
Inc.
August 13, 2025
In December 2023, the Economic Policy Institute released a report on disparities between wage growth across different income levels. For those in the bottom 90%, wages grew just 32.9% from 1979 to 2022. For those in the top 1%, wages grew 171.7%. For those in the top 0.1%, wages grew 344.4%.
Investopedia
August 13, 2025
Features interview with Valerie Wilson
NPR 1A
August 13, 2025
Daniel Costa, a lawyer at the Economic Policy Institute, said there’s concern that removing the “temporary” status on the visas could risk creating a massive class of workers who are “permanently temporary.”
These workers could be trapped year after year in a dependent visa status, unable to change jobs, and lacking the full rights of other workers, Costa said.
Minnesota Star Tribune
August 13, 2025
Heidi Shierholz, who served as the chief economist at the Department of Labor under President Barack Obama and now runs the nonpartisan labor think tank the Economic Policy Institute, joins us to talk about the BLS, the important data it compiles, and what the hell a revision is.
Crooked Media What A Day Podcast
August 13, 2025