Nevada taxpayers paid $2.7 billion on mass deportations in 2025, according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI).
Clark County taxpayers accounted for $1.8 billion of that amount, and Washoe County taxpayers accounted for nearly $600,000.
The Nevada Current
August 17, 2026
President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda could cost Bexar County taxpayers more than $1.13 billion by the time his second term ends in 2028, according to a new online calculator created by the Economic Policy Institute.
The left-leaning D.C.-based think tank’s Cost of Deportations calculator shows how much U.S. taxpayer money is being spent on mass deportations at the national, state, county, congressional district and city levels — and for the average federal taxpayer.
San Antonio Current
August 17, 2026
Widening pay gap? Some 63% of women said they would feel pressure to accept a lower-paying job after a layoff, compared to 52% of men, according to a recent Glassdoor survey seen by Bloomberg. That could exacerbate the pay gap that’s been widening since 2024, the Economic Policy Institute reported.
HR Brew
August 17, 2026
The Trump administration’s deportation push costs the average American nearly $2,400 in taxes, according to analysis, money that could otherwise be spent on improving healthcare, housing and education.
A new tool from the Economic Policy Institute calculated how the $268.9 billion committed by the administration to fund President Donald Trump’s mass deportation and detention push would cost average American taxpayers $2,358.
The Independent
August 17, 2026
Those changes were made, even though, a growing number of middle-class Americans are not earning enough to meet their basic needs. It’s something UC Berkeley researchers warned about a decade ago. Since 1979, wages for the nation’s highest earners have nearly doubled, while pay for the bottom 90% has risen just 44%, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Napa Valley Register
August 14, 2026
For Black voters, their unhappiness about the state of the U.S. economy reflects the fact that they are now in the worst financial position they have been in a decade, according to a recent analysis of Federal Reserve data published by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI).
Newsweek
August 14, 2026
There is nothing in the state legislation that forces Uber or Lyft to come to a contract agreement with any union. Such is not the nature of labor negotiations.
AB 1340, authored by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D-Berkeley), requires the parties to bargain in good faith — but if the companies refuse to do so, the remedy for that is an unfair labor practice charge, which takes time to resolve. As the pro-labor Economic Policy Institute demonstrated in a lengthy examination of corporate tactics, Starbucks, Amazon and Trader Joe’s (among others) have taken full advantage of that labor-complaint time gap to repeatedly stall negotiations.
Capital & Main
August 14, 2026
The truth is that “tax subsidies for retirement savings are upside down,” as the labor-oriented Economic Policy Institute puts it. Some 80% of those subsidies go to households earning more than $100,000.
There’s little evidence that higher-income households are encouraged by those tax breaks to save more for retirement than they would without them — “they simply steer savings to tax-favored accounts,” EPI says.
LA Times
August 14, 2026
According to the Economic Policy Institute, the District’s unemployment rate rose to 6.4% in the first quarter of 2026. This was higher than any state’s rate or the District’s rate itself, and the only rate above 6%. Nationally, unemployment was 4.3%.
The Washington Informer
August 14, 2026