“Antoni has repeatedly and unfairly attacked the agency he’d be set to run, contributed to the right-wing Project 2025 policy blueprint, and in his role at the Heritage Foundation has stretched the truth about the economy to make partisan political claims,” said Josh Bivens, chief economist at the Economic Policy Institute.
Common Dreams
August 13, 2025
This might have been billed as an effort to impose “efficiency” on the system. But “a more accurate description,” writes Monique Morrissey of the labor-oriented Economic Policy Institute, “is sabotage.”
LA Times
August 13, 2025
“We’ve definitely seen school districts across the country make the decision to change bus routes, cut bus routes,” said Sebastian Martinez Hickey, an analyst at the Economic Policy Institute who has studied the nationwide shortage of school bus drivers.
More than half of all students, he says, still rely on buses to get to school, especially low-income students.
Today, EPI found there are nearly a third fewer bus drivers than there were 15 years ago.
“I think perhaps they are undervalued because we don’t think about what an essential service it is to get children safely and on time to school,” said Martinez Hickey. “When there are changes to school bus routes or there are cancellations, that can contribute to increases in chronic absenteeism for students.”
CBS News Texas
August 13, 2025
The male Gen-Z worker has, on average, had a higher rate of unemployment since the pandemic, Business Insider contends, and it boils down to the way young female workers are dominant in a few key areas of the job market. Elise Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, explained to the news outlet that right now the hiring situation means it may be “tougher for men who are looking for jobs where there’s just not a whole lot of hiring,” partly because “employers are holding steady with the workers they have, and workers are also holding steady in their roles.”
Inc.
August 13, 2025
If the Trump administration were to deport 4 million people over a four-year period, New Jersey’s workforce could shrink by 234,000 — including 67,000 people in construction — said a July report by the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank.
NorthJersey.com
August 13, 2025
In December 2023, the Economic Policy Institute released a report on disparities between wage growth across different income levels. For those in the bottom 90%, wages grew just 32.9% from 1979 to 2022. For those in the top 1%, wages grew 171.7%. For those in the top 0.1%, wages grew 344.4%.
Investopedia
August 13, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute, the average estimated expenses tied to living in Cortland County for two adults without children is $5,019 per month, or $60,231 per year.
MoneyDigest
August 13, 2025
Features interview with Valerie Wilson
NPR 1A
August 13, 2025
Daniel Costa, a lawyer at the Economic Policy Institute, said there’s concern that removing the “temporary” status on the visas could risk creating a massive class of workers who are “permanently temporary.”
These workers could be trapped year after year in a dependent visa status, unable to change jobs, and lacking the full rights of other workers, Costa said.
Minnesota Star Tribune
August 13, 2025
The Economic Policy Institute has slightly different numbers but the same trend: Wage growth shot up with inflation, then slowed as inflation ebbed. However, wage growth in 2025 remains higher than during the first half of Trump’s first term, when it generally ran under 3%; in the last half, it topped 3% and was running at 3.4% before the pandemic hit.
Cardinal News (VA)
August 13, 2025