The state was singled out in a 2024 report by Governing for Impact and the Economic Policy Institute that recorded a surge in workplace injuries and violations involving minors – some in the agricultural industry where hazards include exposure to toxic chemicals and dangerous machinery.
The Guardian
April 1, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute, day care costs in the United States have been rising rapidly, outpacing inflation. In New York, the average annual cost of infant care is $17,361; that’s $1,447 per month.
Spectrum News 1
April 1, 2025
..more than $15,000 per year according to a recent report by the Economic Policy Institute. These high costs leave many families with the…[paywall].
Boston Globe
April 1, 2025
The report’s authors, North Star Policy Action Research Director Aaron Rosenthal and Economic Policy Institute analyst Nina Mast, acknowledge the increase in citations could be from heightened enforcement. But they also point to larger economic factors at play that make an increase in child labor likely, such as the chronic labor shortage and influx of underage migrants who likely know little about their rights and have a strong financial incentive not to assert them.
Minnesota Reformer
April 1, 2025
…to adequately increase pay for its teachers over time. The Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, has labeled the resulting…[paywall].
The Advocate
April 1, 2025
Kids Forward, in partnership with the Immigration Research Initiative and the Economic Policy Institute, analyzed U.S. Census American Community Survey data to find that 11% of Wisconsin’s downtown businesses are immigrant-owned.
Additionally, immigrants account for significant portions of labor across industries, like service, education, health care and manufacturing. Immigrants make up 63% of manicurists and pedicurists, 24% of packaging machine operators and 17% of college professors and software developers.
Sheboygan Press
April 1, 2025
…better off staying put in a way right now with all the layoffs,” Elise Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute,…[paywall].
Business Insider
April 1, 2025
The report prepared for the union group by the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C., based think tank, highlighted two of the state’s largest industry sectors: tourism and auto manufacturing.
One in 10 South Carolinians work in hospitality, the report said, citing statistics from the South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism.
“In places like Myrtle Beach, tourism is the largest sector of the economy,” it read. “Many of those who work in hospitality, however, don’t make enough to live in these communities.”
South Carolina Daily Gazette
April 1, 2025
The Economic Policy Institute’s Family Budget Calculator estimated the income a family needed in 2025 for a “modest yet adequate standard of living,” which does not include costs such as paying for student loans or for homeownership, ranged from $75,966 in Coos County (the least expensive county) to $101,336 in Rockingham County for a household with two adults and one child.
Business NH Magazine
April 1, 2025
“The U.S. public education system needs all sorts of reforms to boost its capacity to provide an excellent education to all children. But public education is also why the United States became the richest country the world has ever seen, and its future depends on maintaining and strengthening this system—not tearing it down,” argues Hilary Wething of the Economic Policy Institute.
“Often, demands to ‘abolish’ the DOE are accompanied by vague reassurances that the money spent by the DOE will somehow be ‘returned to the states.’ But the vast majority of money spent by the DOE is exactly given to state and local school systems… just over 51 percent of federal funding goes to the third of districts with the greatest need (as measured by district poverty), while only 18 percent goes to the third of districts with the lowest neighborhood poverty,” Wething continues. “Unless one is entirely confident that a Trump administration-led effort to ‘return’ this money to state and local districts will somehow be as effective in targeting higher-poverty districts, it is a near-guarantee that any effort to cut or abolish the DOE will take money directly out of those districts whose students need it the most.”
Alabama Political Reporter
April 1, 2025