CALARCO: I think we have to be very mindful of how Trump’s deportation policies are threatening to undermine the progress that has already been made on child care. There was a report that came out in July of 2025 from the Economic Policy Institute that found that if Trump is able to carry out his full immigration agenda, those deportations will end up eliminating half a million child care jobs in the U.S. Immigrant women currently play an outsized role in the child care workforce – that trickle-down of the way that we…
NPR It's Been A Minute Podcast
December 1, 2025
At least 26 states have created their own versions of DOGE, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
The Daily Voice
December 1, 2025
These changes come as Francis Howell and other districts across the nation face a school bus driver shortage, as reported by the Economic Policy Institute. Legislation was introduced last year in the U.S. House of Representatives to address the issue.
Mid Rivers Magazine
December 1, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute, this 2001 bubble burst was marred by a slower recovery, leading to a “tougher economy for highly educated …[paywall].
Forbes
December 1, 2025
The European Central Bank, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the European Commission, and the International Monetary Fund all published studies on profits driving inflation, while the Groundwork Collaborative and the Economic Policy Institute found that over 53 percent of price increases from 2020 to 2022 were driven by profit gains.
Jacobin
December 1, 2025
According to the National Education Association, the average teacher salary in Mississippi is $53,704. That’s $15,000 less than what the Economic Policy Institute says is needed to comfortably support a single parent, one child household in the Jackson metro area, which is $68,772. In DeSoto County, where Reid lives, that cost is even higher — $76,612 a year.
Mississippi Today
December 1, 2025
Investopedia
December 1, 2025
Research from the Economic Policy Institute shows that communities with stronger union density enjoy higher median household incomes, lower poverty rates …[paywall].
Sacramento Business Journal
December 1, 2025
Wimer pointed out that others have tried to make budgets like Green’s before. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s state-by-state Living Wage Calculator says that in Maryland, for instance, two working adults with two children need an income of $129,572 to afford food, child care, housing, transportation and other expenses. The left-leaning Economic Policy Institute says that for a “modest but adequate standard of living,” a family needs $139,524 to pay for housing, child care, health care, food and transportation in the D.C. metro area, or a little over $100,000 in Birmingham, Alabama, or Cleveland, or $84,019 in El Paso.
The Washington Post
December 1, 2025
To be sure, Green acknowledged his calculations are based on costs in suburban New Jersey. His threshold is also above the median household income for a family of four in 37 states, according to the Washington Post.
But Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Living Wage Calculator and the Economic Policy Institute have also put family expenses in some states at more than $100,000 a year.
Fortune
December 1, 2025