Un reciente informe del Economic Policy Institute (EPI, en inglés) más de 350.000 trabajadores agrícolas…
Reporte Hispano (New Jersey)
December 8, 2025
Expertos de instituciones como el Cato Institute y el Economic Policy Institute coinciden en que estas cuentas podrían convertirse en un producto “de nicho”, más útil para familias con asesores financieros o planes de ahorro complejos. Aun así, todos recomiendan aceptar el depósito inicial del gobierno, porque “algo es mejor que nada”, especialmente cuando no cuesta un solo dólar aportar al balance inicial.
USA Today
December 8, 2025
The federal government sets the Adverse Effect Wage Rate (AEWR) for H-2A workers, a base rate that’s designed to keep H-2A wages from outcompeting US-born workers’ pay. A report from the Economic Policy Institute estimates the new AEWR rules set by the federal government could result in H2A farmworkers’ wages being “cut by a total of $2 billion or more—between 26% to 32% of their wages.”
WMUK (Michigan)
December 8, 2025
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Josh Bivens, Raising taxes on the ultrarich, Economic Policy Institute. Americans accurately believe that many rich households and corporations are not paying their fair share. This perception will change only when just our richest — and the corporations they run — see their taxes increase.
Inequality.org
December 8, 2025
Black men saw an increase in unemployment from 4.9% in September 2024 to 6.6% in September 2025, and Black women experienced the highest rate of unemployment at 7.5%.
“I think what is particularly troubling about that is that we don’t see that decline show up for other groups of women for whom we have data for,” said Valerie Wilson, director of The Economic Policy Institute’s Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy. “We don’t see it in terms of employment trends for Hispanic women or white women. We also don’t see that huge of a drop-off for Black men either.”
Spectrum News 1
December 8, 2025
According to a December 2021 report by the Economic Policy Institute, researchers found that skilled H-1B visa employees working as subcontractors at companies such as Disney, FedEx, Google and others appeared to have been underpaid by at least $95 million.
DC Journal
December 8, 2025
The average cost of child care is $15,394 a year in New York, the sixth-most expensive state in the nation, according to a recent report by the Economic Policy Institute.
The Center Square
December 8, 2025
The harder question, perhaps, is whether parents should actively contribute to the accounts over the next 18 years.
“It’s free money. The question is whether you would add onto it,” said Monique Morrissey, a senior economist at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
USA Today
December 8, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute, CEO compensation grew nearly tenfold faster than typical worker pay between 1978 and 2024. Stock-related pay now accounts for 79% of average CEO compensation.
Nasdaq
December 8, 2025