According to the Economic Policy Institute, the average annual cost of full-time child care in Florida ranges from $9,548 to $13,021
The News-Press
February 23, 2026
Under the National Labor Relations Act, private employers have a legal duty to bargain “in good faith” with a union that has been certified by the federal National Labor Relations Board as employees’ bargaining agent. As the pro-labor Economic Policy Institute notes, however, “it is a common tactic for employers to slow-walk the bargaining process because there are no penalties for doing so, and delay frustrates workers and undermines their union.”
Orlando Weekly
February 23, 2026
A single parent with two children needs a salary of at least $81,000 in Memphis, according to the family budget calculator with the Economic Policy Institute.
FOX 13 Memphis
February 23, 2026
Black women in the U.S. suffered greater employment losses than other groups of women or Black men in 2025, and some of the largest losses were among college graduates and public-sector workers, according to new analysis from the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank.
HR Dive
February 23, 2026
Features interview with Valerie Wilson.
Good Morning America
February 23, 2026
The Economic Policy Institute estimates NAFTA cost 700,000 U.S. jobs by 2010. Manufacturing collapsed. Wages stagnated. The communities that lost those jobs have spent thirty years waiting for the market to sort it out.
Capitalism Magazine
February 20, 2026
The cost of childcare is prohibitive to working families in most parts of the nation, per data from the Economic Policy Institute. The federal Department of Health and Human Services places a benchmark for affordable childcare at about 7% of a family’s annual income, but there are no places in the country where that benchmark is met. Even in Mississippi, which has the cheapest cost of childcare in the nation, infant care alone is about 10% of median family income, and is doubled if a family has an infant and a four-year-old, exceeding the cost of in-state college tuition.
Kitsap Daily News (Washington)
February 20, 2026
As the population hub of Teton County, Jackson, Wyoming’s picturesque downtown anchors a community of residents, tourists, and outdoor enthusiasts. Despite its modest size and charming rustic feel, Teton County is consistently ranked as one of the country’s wealthiest places. But not every resident is tucked behind a fat bank account. According to the Economic Policy Institute, this county is the most economically unequal in the country, with its top 1 percent making 142 times more than the average income of the rest of the population.
The Architect's Newspaper
February 20, 2026
Josh Bivens, chief economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal-leaning think tank, cautioned against looking at wage growth only over presidential terms, calling it “deeply misleading” because “macroeconomic cycles occasionally have huge effects that have nothing to do with presidential performance.”
Bivens noted that average wages jumped up during the COVID-19 pandemic when the unemployment rate also spiked as mainly low-wage workers lost their jobs. As those low-wage workers regained employment, “it had the effect of artificially lowering measured wages in the aggregate.” (Burtless also said the pandemic had this impact on wage data.)
“The lesson is that the proper way to measure macroeconomic variables like average wages is from business cycle peak to business cycle peak, not from the trough to a peak. That’s why, for example, we measure from 2019-2024 or 2025,” Bivens said.
FactCheck.org
February 20, 2026