On any given day, educators are planners, safety monitors, counselors, mentors, and liaisons with families. Yet teachers earn 26% less than other professionals with similar education (Economic Policy Institute, 2022).
Forbes
December 19, 2025
Wage theft is the second-most common workplace violation and costs workers $4 billion a year, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Supermarket News
December 19, 2025
At least 40 localities — including states, counties, and cities — have established reparations initiatives as of December 2024, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit economic policy think tank.
Roanoke Rambler
December 19, 2025
And on Tuesday, new government data pointed to large federal job losses in recent months, some 162,000 jobs in October and a further 6,000 last month.
“Federal government employment is down by 271,000 since reaching a peak in January,” the Bureau of Labor Statistics said.
“The cost of these losses are only beginning to be felt,” Elise Gould, an economist with the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, said Tuesday.
Dayton Daily News
December 19, 2025
“Downward revisions for August and September plus large losses in October — due to an enormous drop in federal workers at the end of September — has meant a significant slowing in the pace of job growth,” said Elise Gould, a senior economist with the Economic Policy InstituteOpen in a new tab. “The three-month moving average of job growth fell from 232,000 in January to 62,000 in November.”
WorldatWork
December 19, 2025
- Americans were more likely to support unions than big companies by the widest margin in 60 years, according to Economic Policy Institute data.
Axios Chicago
December 19, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute, 67 localities across the U.S. have adopted minimum wages higher than their state minimum wage.
Scotsman Guide
December 19, 2025
Think tanks like Brookings (widely viewed as centrist to liberal) and the Economic Policy Institute (widely viewed as liberal) argue that without coordinated action, the middle class will continue to erode—making affordability less about choices and more about structural barriers. Still, how to pay for those investments fuels sharp political debates.
Investopedia
December 19, 2025
A nationwide mandate could generate an estimated $7 trillion in additional retirement savings and create 62 million new savers over a decade, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Financial Advisor
December 19, 2025
“It really boils down to sort of a perfect storm of factors,” says Valerie Wilson, the director of the program on race, ethnicity, and the economy at the Economic Policy Institute. “We have the federal layoffs and job losses. We have the retraction of DEI policies . . . and organizations, including the federal government, that have essentially eliminated DEI departments or roles that were likely held by a large number of Black women.” Wilson also notes that job losses across industries have disproportionately impacted women—from manufacturing to professional and business services.
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“The reason why we have a more diverse federal workforce is because at one point, the federal government was actually willing to sort of be a leader in establishing more equitable employment practices that were ultimately adopted in states and cities and, to some extent, the private sector,” Wilson says.
Fast Company
December 19, 2025