Yes, we know it’s an outright lie that there has been “no inflation” over the last year, and that actual economists, including those at the Economic Policy Institute, said in January that Trump inherited a strong economy from Biden, not the “MESS” of a hand he claims he got dealt.
NewsOne
December 15, 2025
Data from the Economic Policy Institute show that from 1979 to 2023, the share of all wages held by the bottom 90% by income fell by 9.1 percentage points.
MarketWatch
December 15, 2025
Sources:
Economic Policy Institute. (2024). How vouchers harm public schools: Calculating the cost of voucher programs to public school districts. https://www.epi.org/publication/vouchers-harm-public-schools/
Tennessee Stands
December 15, 2025
Per-pupil state and local spending on public schools has indeed decreased in states that have adopted voucher programs. In 2021, states with voucher programs spent $10,054 per pupil, and states without voucher programs spent $12,820 per student, according to research from the Economic Policy Institute.
Colorado Politics
December 15, 2025
The low-hire, low-fire labor market, which has been difficult for job seekers, looks likely to persist.
“It is concerning to me that we’re starting the year weaker than we were the prior year,” Economic Policy Institute senior economist Elise Gould said. “Do I think a recession is necessarily coming? I don’t know, but I think that I have concerns — and it’s important to remember that even a mild recession can hit historically disadvantaged groups a lot.”
Yahoo Finance
December 15, 2025
“It’s much harder to break into the labor market right now,” said Elise Gould, senior economist at Economic Policy Institute. “Employers just aren’t hiring at the rate that they did last year or the previous years.”
The Washington Post
December 15, 2025
As the Economic Policy Institute documented, voters supported progressive and economic populist ballot measures nationwide:
Common Dreams
December 15, 2025
Source:
[24] McNicholas, C., Poydock, M., & Sanders, S. (July 10, 2025). “Trump’s Department of Labor is dismantling key workplace protections.” Economic Policy Institute.
Counterpunch
December 15, 2025
Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, said there are three major takeaways from this week’s JOLTS: the rate of hiring continues to be low; the rate of those quitting is the nation’s lowest since 2014, and layoffs are up slightly. The nation’s unemployment rate “can quickly spike” if layoffs continue rolling in and employers slow down their hiring, Gould said in a social media post.
“Not only will the unemployment rate spike if layoffs continue to rise as hiring remains depressed, but it may explain why the young adult unemployment has been rising as it becomes increasingly difficult to break into the labor market as employers and workers sit tight under economic uncertainty,” Gould said.
Homes.com
December 15, 2025
Nationally, school bus driver staffing levels are nearly 10% lower than they were in 2019, according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute. Many of those drivers were retirees, and many quit when the coronavirus pandemic-era shutdowns began. Replacing them has proven difficult.
Albany Times Union
December 15, 2025