Jennifer Sherer, a labor economist with the Economic Policy Institute, framed the baristas’ struggle as part of a nationwide wave of worker organizing amid …
The Gazette Cedar Rapids (Iowa)
December 8, 2025
Infant care costs are also 11.7% higher than the average rent, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Chicago Tribune
December 8, 2025
Escobedo’s predicament illustrates the challenges that many young Americans, even those with impressive academic records, are having entering the nation’s workforce amid a broad decline in job listings and as they compete with more experienced people.
“They’re sort of missing out on the ability to jump into the labor market,” said Elise Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank. “It’s not a new phenomenon, but it is a concerning phenomenon.”
CBS Moneywatch
December 8, 2025
Meanwhile, a cost-of-living crisis festers on Main Street. Significantly, this working majority does not set prices or wages, the drivers of cost-of-living conditions.
It’s not an either or situation. “The roots of today’s affordability crisis actually lie not in recent price spikes,” according to Heidi Shierholz, President at the Economic Policy Institute and former chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor, “but in the long-term suppression of workers’ pay.”
Counterpunch
December 5, 2025
On this episode of The Rick Smith Show, Rick digs into what everyone is getting wrong about the affordability debate with Heidi Shierholz, president of the Economic Policy Institute.
The Rick Smith Show
December 5, 2025
Un reciente informe del Economic Policy Institute (EPI, en inglés) más de 350.000 trabajadores agrícolas…
Reporte Hispano (New Jersey)
December 5, 2025
State and local governments were required to allocate funds they had received through the American Rescue Plan Act by Dec. 31, 2024, and must spend them by the end of 2026. Unused funds must be returned to the U.S. Treasury, according to a blog post by the Economic Policy Institute.
The News Tribune
December 2, 2025
Virginia has been hit especially hard by the cutting of federal jobs. Black Americans account for about 26% of the federal workforce in the state, according to the Economic Policy Institute, and make up around 18% of the total state population.
Capital B
December 2, 2025
Losses that result from this sleight of hand are steep. A January report from the Economic Policy Institute estimated that the country’s social safety net funds lose out on up to $3,070.10 annually for each misclassified worker; the Century Foundation report cited earlier estimated the overall cost of worker misclassification in the United States to be somewhere between $5 billion and $10 billion.
The New Republic
December 2, 2025