An Economic Policy Institute (EPI) report found that Trump’s deportation agenda will potentially eliminate 6 million jobs.
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“There is a very strong likelihood that the NLRB will achieve quorum in the new year and begin a more aggressive attack on workers’ right to organize and collectively bargain,” Margaret Poydock, a senior policy analyst at EPI, told Truthout. “President Trump is the largest union buster in U.S. history, and his interference with the independence of the NLRB will result in the further weakening of our nation’s labor laws.”
Truthout
January 5, 2026
Several other New England states saw a modest minimum pay bump at the start of the new year, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Boston Globe
January 5, 2026
The Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, estimates around 8.3 million Americans will see higher wages because of the changes.
TEGNA
January 5, 2026
This new pay increase impacts over 8.3 million employees, who will gain a combined $5 billion during 2026, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Starting today, there will be more workers in states with a $15 or higher minimum wage than in states with the federal minimum of $7.25, the EPI noted.
Live Now FOX
January 5, 2026
The 19 states hiking wages will impact over 8 million workers, an analysis from the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, found. Women, Black, and Hispanic workers are set to be disproportionately affected by the new increases, per EPI’s analysis, and workers in states like Missouri and Nebraska will see their annual wages increase by nearly $1,000 on average.
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- For the first time, more workers will live in states with at least a $15 minimum wage than the federal minimum.
Business Insider
January 5, 2026
With 2026 upon us, paychecks for minimum-wage employees will reflect increases in 19 states starting January 1. More than 8.3 million workers are expected to benefit from these changes, collectively gaining an estimated $5 billion in additional earnings nationwide.
Forbes
January 5, 2026
And when the estimated native-born population increases, so does the estimated number of U.S.-born workers, as Ben Zipperer, senior economist for the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, explained in a September article.
FactCheck.org
January 5, 2026
An estimated 18.6% of the labor force in 2023 in the United States was foreign born, and according to the Economic Policy Institute, “were it not for immigration, the total prime-age U.S. labor force would have stagnated: Over 95% of the cumulative growth of the labor force in the past three decades is due to immigration.”
Documented NY
January 5, 2026
The big picture: More than 8.3 million workers across the country saw their pay go up on Jan. 1. That included both those getting a direct increase and others indirectly affected when companies adjust wage ladders, according to an estimate from the progressive Economic Policy Institute.
Axios Detroit
January 5, 2026
And Josh Bivens at the Economic Policy Institute said there seems to be more of a connection again between how people are feeling and behaving this year.
“Sentiment was pretty bad, and you saw a noticeable deceleration in actual spending. So I would say, historically, they’re pretty linked. They became delinked for a while. 2025, I think they started to come back together,” he said.
And that’s probably largely because the labor market and wage growth are slowing.
Marketplace
January 5, 2026