If the Trump administration hits its stated target of deporting 4 million people over four years, the direct care workforce could shrink by roughly 394,000 jobs — 274,000 positions held by immigrants and 120,000 held by United States-born workers — according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute.
That kind of contraction would tighten the supply of frontline in-home care workers who help older adults and people with disabilities stay safe at home, the institute said in a blog post. This could potentially force more families to scramble for unpaid caregiving arrangements at the same time demand for home- and community-based support continues to rise.
McKnight’s Senior Living
December 19, 2025
Nationally, since February, nearly 600,000 Black women have forcibly exited the labor force and a report released this year from the Economic Policy Institute found that unemployment rates among Black women in South Carolina this year increased to 7.5%—the highest unemployment rate since 2021.
Prism Reports
December 19, 2025
On any given day, educators are planners, safety monitors, counselors, mentors, and liaisons with families. Yet teachers earn 26% less than other professionals with similar education (Economic Policy Institute, 2022).
Forbes
December 19, 2025
Wage theft is the second-most common workplace violation and costs workers $4 billion a year, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Supermarket News
December 19, 2025
At least 40 localities — including states, counties, and cities — have established reparations initiatives as of December 2024, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit economic policy think tank.
Roanoke Rambler
December 19, 2025
And on Tuesday, new government data pointed to large federal job losses in recent months, some 162,000 jobs in October and a further 6,000 last month.
“Federal government employment is down by 271,000 since reaching a peak in January,” the Bureau of Labor Statistics said.
“The cost of these losses are only beginning to be felt,” Elise Gould, an economist with the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, said Tuesday.
Dayton Daily News
December 19, 2025
“Downward revisions for August and September plus large losses in October — due to an enormous drop in federal workers at the end of September — has meant a significant slowing in the pace of job growth,” said Elise Gould, a senior economist with the Economic Policy InstituteOpen in a new tab. “The three-month moving average of job growth fell from 232,000 in January to 62,000 in November.”
WorldatWork
December 19, 2025
- Americans were more likely to support unions than big companies by the widest margin in 60 years, according to Economic Policy Institute data.
Axios Chicago
December 19, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute, 67 localities across the U.S. have adopted minimum wages higher than their state minimum wage.
Scotsman Guide
December 19, 2025
Think tanks like Brookings (widely viewed as centrist to liberal) and the Economic Policy Institute (widely viewed as liberal) argue that without coordinated action, the middle class will continue to erode—making affordability less about choices and more about structural barriers. Still, how to pay for those investments fuels sharp political debates.
Investopedia
December 19, 2025