..who were more likely to experience layoffs, according to the Economic Policy Institute. The biggest decline among Black people was for those who are college-educated. [paywall].
Boston Globe
August 13, 2026
According to data from the Economic Policy Institute, the annual cost for infant care in Indiana is $14,471. This is more than $4,000 more than Michigan and more than $5,000 more than Kentucky. In the same index, Michigan ranks 24th and Kentucky 14th, indicating substantially less restrictive regulatory environments than Indiana’s.
Indiana Capital Chronicle
August 13, 2026
Ben Zipperer, senior economist at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, said Wednesday’s report was “unambiguously bad news for workers.”
“They’re now taking a pay cut. A frozen job market has weakened their bargaining power and slowed nominal wage growth, and the higher inflation from Trump’s Iran war has caused real wages to decline,” Zipperer said in a text to NOTUS.
NOTUS
August 13, 2026
Tennessee taxpayers are paying about $1,961 each to fund the Trump administration’s mass deportation policies, according to an analysis of the federal budget released by the Economic Policy Institute.
The think tank developed an online tool that calculates the average taxpayer’s share of the estimated $268.9 billion cost of deportations through the end of President Donald Trump’s term.
The calculator draws on IRS income data, estimates by the Institute for Policy Studies of projected federal expenditure on deportation and other data to estimate the price tag for federal taxpayers in every U.S. city, county, and state, and includes written analyses of its findings. Tennessee’s taxpayers, in total, will foot nearly than $4.5 billion of the total deportation costs, it shows.
The left-leaning think tank also calculated potential tradeoffs in the federal government’s immigration enforcement spending priorities, estimating what the same level of funding could instead be used for: covering the salaries of 21,401 firefighters, or funding Medicaid healthcare for 246,018 patients or the hiring 18,750 teachers.
Tennessee Lookout
August 13, 2026
“EPI has long pointed out that worker pay is also a policy choice. Raising the overtime rate of pay would boost workers’ income, provide a stronger deterrent against overworking employees, and help to reverse the decades-long erosion of overtime protections. A double overtime rate would be a simple, fair way to put more money in workers’ pockets,” said Samantha Sanders, director of government affairs and advocacy at the Economic Policy Institute, one of the groups supporting the legislation. “This bill would address a key concern with affordability: making sure that workers actually earn enough in wages to cover the costs of living with dignity and security.”
McKnight’s Senior Living
August 13, 2026
If policymakers are serious about addressing affordability, they would champion one institution that has consistently proven capable of raising pay: unions.
Through collective bargaining, unions are the most effective mechanism for workers to raise their wages and secure their fair share of the wealth they produce. Our new report at the Economic Policy Institute quantifies how transformative it would be to rebuild union power. Specifically, we examine what we stand to gain if we tripled current union membership to 30% — similar to its peak in the U.S. before decades of relentless attacks on unions and collective bargaining eroded it, and just shy of the current rate in Canada.
We find that tripling union membership would raise pay for the typical worker by more than $7,700 every year, or nearly $270,000 over a 35-year career. This would be life-changing for a working family — nearly covering the cost of raising a child from birth through age 17, for example. And those increases aren’t just for unionized workers — strong unions also benefit nonunion workers by establishing broad standards that employers must follow to get and keep the workers they need.
In These Times
August 13, 2026
Your article on deadly occupations reports that there were 52 fatal workplace accidents in Oregon in 2024, (“These are Oregon’s most deadly occupations,” Aug. 2). The source is the annual U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries. The critical word here is injuries, because these statistics exclude fatal occupational diseases. My review of literature in 2020 for the Economic Policy Institute revealed fatal diseases can outnumber accidents by as much as 10 to one.
The Oregonian
August 11, 2026
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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 2026