According to the Economic Policy Institute, more than 225,000 Marylanders are federal employees, and 34% of those federal employees live in Central Maryland. This shutdown places them at risk of financial catastrophe, forcing impossible decisions: Do I sell my car to pay the rent? Do I take a night shift and leave my children home alone? Do I go to a food pantry for the first time in my life?
Baltimore Business Journal
November 5, 2025
Mamdani’s wage plan proposes gradual increases to reach $30 by 2030. This measure will raise earnings for more than 1.6 million low- and mid-income workers across sectors such as hospitality, retail, elder care, and logistics. Economists at the Economic Policy Institute have long noted that higher wages reduce turnover and increase local consumer spending, two factors that can strengthen small business revenues over time.
CEO Today
November 5, 2025
Consider that it costs a Kansas City, Mo., family of four about $104,000 a year to have an adequate standard of living, according to an Economic Policy Institute budget calculator.
Wall Street Journal
November 5, 2025
Home to the Pentagon, CIA and one of the largest concentrations of federal workers in the nation, Virginia is also one of the places most exposed to the impacts of Trump’s efforts to slash the federal bureaucracy. About 6% of Virginia’s workforce is in the federal government, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Bloomberg
November 5, 2025
Baltimore Sun
November 5, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank that tracks minimum wage data…[paywall].
Portland Press Herald
November 5, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute analysis of the August jobs report, job openings have been holding steady since July, but both hires and quits edged lower, while layoffs and discharges stayed about the same. [6] The low rate of hiring is similar to that right after the Great Recession.
MoneyWise
November 4, 2025
Black workers make up 18.7 percent of federal employees nationally and 21.2 percent in Florida — more than 95,000 people — with an average of nearly 11 years of service, according to the Economic Policy Institute. The purge of federal workers has taken a toll on Black professionals. Roberts said the change is particularly troublesome for those who were told to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and go to college to earn a living, only for their careers to be snatched away.
Miami Herald
November 4, 2025
For much of the 20th century, teaching was a stable, middle-class job in the U.S. Now it’s becoming a lot harder to survive on a teacher’s salary: Wages have been stagnant for decades, according to a study from the Economic Policy Institute, and teachers earn 5% less than they did a decade ago when adjusting for inflation.
The Conversation
November 4, 2025
Washington — State policymakers can maintain or bolster worker rights and safety and health protections – which are “under acute threat” – via a three-step plan, the Economic Policy Institute says in a new report.
EPI, which describes itself as a “nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank,” points to efforts by the Trump administration to restrict the General Duty Clause and block or delay standards on hazards such as heat exposure or silica dust, among other actions.
Safety and Health Magazine
November 4, 2025