Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute and an expert in wage dynamics, told Newsweek that areas such as leisure and hospitality “experienced much faster wage growth” following the pandemic due to the “sheer numbers of jobs lost and the need for employers to scramble to attract and retain workers.” She added that these effects were especially pronounced at the lower end of wage distribution, and for workers who required more “enticement” from employers to return to lower-compensated, face-to-face positions.
Newsweek
October 7, 2025
Indeed, the continuing resolution passed in March (a) increased defense spending by $13 billion, (b) decreased domestic spending by $6 billion, (c) increased executive discretion over congressional appropriations, and (d) prohibited any member of Congress from seeking an end to Trump’s declaration of a national state of emergency over immigration. See Economic Policy Institute, (3/15/25), Congress passes Continuing Resolution to fund federal government, cut domestic federal spending.
Today's Edition Newsletter (Substack)
October 7, 2025
Article sources:
- Economic Policy Institute. “Inequality in Annual Earnings Worsens in 2021.”
Investopedia
October 7, 2025
Kamper is a senior state policy strategist for the Economic Policy Institute, and began organizing on the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign campus as a graduate student in the 1990s. He argues that the current era of unionism presents a historical high and a changing tide filled with hope following a few decades of losses stemming from the 1980s. The pandemic blew everything apart, Kamper says, in order for new strategies to emerge.
Workday Magazine
October 7, 2025
American Farm Bureau Federation Inc. Economic Policy Institute; United Farm Workers; University of California Davis. Government Agencies.
Law360
October 7, 2025
One of the benefits of living in a small city is affordability. WalletHub cited an example based on figures from Economic Policy Institute’s family budget calculator of the cost of living for a two-parent, two-child family in Hanford, California, compared with that of the same family in San Francisco: $8,013 per versus $17,621 per month.
Think Advisor
October 7, 2025
Excessive deregulation could also create new problems, including pollution that needs to be cleaned up later, among other safety issues, said Adam Hersh, senior economist at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
“Just willy-nilly going in and stripping out regulations is not a recipe for economic success,” he said. Blanket deregulation “is a recipe for transferring the costs of those activities from the business onto other parts of the economy, whether it’s workers, whether it’s consumers, whether it’s the general public.”
Bloomberg
October 7, 2025
Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute and an expert in wage dynamics, told Newsweek that areas such as leisure and hospitality “experienced much faster wage growth” following the pandemic due to the “sheer numbers of jobs lost and the need for employers to scramble to attract and retain workers.” She added that these effects were especially pronounced at the lower end of wage distribution, and for workers who required more “enticement” from employers to return to lower-compensated, face-to-face positions.
Newsweek
October 7, 2025
While an obvious argument that some make is for the other parent to work as well, the topic then becomes the cost of childcare. According to the most recent data from the Economic Policy Institute, the cost of childcare is as high as $2,363 per month (Washington, D.C.). It explains that childcare is considered “affordable” if it costs no more than 7 percent of a family’s income; however, there’s no state where the average falls within that threshold for families earning the median income. To put that into perspective, child care is more expensive than rent in 17 states, according to EPI’s fact sheets.
Men's Journal
October 6, 2025
Incorrectly identifying Wilcox as an NLRB commissioner (the NLRB has no commissioners) Trump wrote he believed Wilcox “unduly” disfavored employers. The implications, said Margaret Poydock of the Economic Policy Institute, is that the newly-appointed board members are expected to rule in favor of employers. That could negatively influence unions’ decisions to bring issues before the board, Poydock told TPM.
“[Trump] kind of gave this justification that if a board member is not favoring employers, they might risk losing their job,” Poydock said of Trump’s letter firing Wilcox. “So workers or union organizers or labor unions may not want to go to a board whose kind of mandate is to favor an employer over the worker.”
Poydock co-authored an article which found the NLRB has continued to process cases through its 12 regional offices, where most cases are handled.
Talking Points Memo
October 6, 2025