A report from the Economic Policy Institute highlights that in some areas, childcare costs have surpassed annual rent payments, further exacerbating the financial challenges faced by working parents, according to Stateline
Motherly
September 15, 2025
The district is one of many in the nation struggling to recruit bus drivers. According to Economic Policy Institute, there were 12.2% fewer bus drivers on the road in 2024 compared to 2019.
KTVQ
September 15, 2025
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WURD Radio
September 15, 2025
The Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, found in 2023 that the median school bus driver earned 43% less than that median weekly wage for …[paywall].
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
September 15, 2025
Minnesota Star Tribune
September 15, 2025
There’s a serious shortage of professionals willing to work in an occupation where, according to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), “Teachers earn 26.6% less than equally degreed peers.”
The Gazette Cedar Rapids (Iowa)
September 15, 2025
The Economic Policy Institute says the average daycare for one child costs $10,000.
KCRG (Iowa)
September 15, 2025
Infant care costs about $14,200 annually in New Mexico, while the average cost to care for a 4-year-old child is just under $10,000, according to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). That’s about 21% and 15%, respectively, of the median income for a family in New Mexico, the EPI estimates.
Investopedia
September 15, 2025
- The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) “forecasts that Trump’s effort to deport 1 million immigrants a year will result in 5.9 million lost jobs after four years: 3.3 million fewer employed immigrants and 2.6 million fewer employed US-born workers. ‘If you don’t have immigrant roofers and framers, you’re not building houses, and that means electricians and plumbers lose their jobs.’ ‘Plus, you lose the consumer spending from those workers,’” and tens of billions of withheld tax revenues annually, one might add.
Common Dreams
September 15, 2025
The lack of immigrant labor not only fails to open doors to American-born workers, it also negatively impacts them, says Ben Zipperer, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a progressive think tank. In a recent report he explained that deportations also affect national workers in several ways. One of the most notable is the breakdown of the complementary ties that exist in jobs involving both foreign and native-born labor. The labor chain is broken. “when there are fewer immigrant roofers and framers to build the basic structure of homes, there will be less work available for U.S.-born electricians and plumbers,” he explains, providing an example that can be applied to other industries and cuts across several sectors.
El Pais
September 15, 2025