The minimum wage increased July 1 in Alaska, Oregon and Washington, DC, as well as in 14 cities and counties across the country, the Economic Policy Institute said in a blog post.
McKnight’s Senior Living
July 13, 2026
Redefining “joint employer” as proposed by the Department of Labor has proposed could cost workers approximately $1 billion annually “through increases in workplace fissuring and exposure to wage theft,” according to the nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank Economic Policy Institute.
McKnight’s Senior Living
July 13, 2026
The jobs increases were especially weak considering that the men’s World Cup soccer tournament likely added 40,000 jobs in June, said Elise Gould, senior economist at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, in a statement. Gould said the unemployment rate drop was “for the wrong reasons” as 720,000 people left the labor market.
Stateline
July 13, 2026
The findings align with recent analysis from the Economic Policy Institute, which found that Black workers have experienced weaker employment during the first year of Trump’s second term, particularly Black men.
Blavity
July 13, 2026
A record number of Black women have been pushed out of the U.S. workforce since 2025, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Forbes
July 13, 2026
About one in four construction workers in the state is an immigrant, according to 2025 data from the Economic Policy Institute. Immigrants are roughly 26 percent of the construction workforce nationwide, according to an analysis from the National Association of Home Builders.
Boston Globe
July 13, 2026
In some states, Black unemployment rates are three times that of White unemployment rates, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Atlanta Black Star
July 13, 2026
…first quarter, according to an analysis of federal data by the Economic Policy Institute. The overall unemployment rate was 3.6% [paywall].
Indianapolis Business Journal
July 13, 2026
It won’t help all children equally, though, says Ismael Cid-Martinez, an economist with the Economic Policy Institute. “It’s a good idea for families that are already positioned to save,” he said. “But I’m deeply concerned about families who can’t afford to save, which represents the bulk of U.S. adults.”
Those families won’t be able to contribute to their children’s investment accounts, he said, and even if their babies are eligible for the Trump account seed funding, that won’t provide enough of a cushion to make a meaningful difference. The result, he fears, will widen economic disparities.
“If the government really wanted to do something to help families in need,” Mr. Cid-Martinez said, “it could bring back some of the programs that were introduced in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, like the expansion of SNAP benefits and the Child Tax Credit, which cut child poverty in the U.S. nearly by half,” Mr. Cid-Martinez said. Child poverty rebounded quickly after the programs expired; SNAP benefits have since been slashed further by the law that established Trump accounts.
The New York Times
July 13, 2026
“It absolutely is OK to use the money for public safety, for public health, and that includes reimbursing the salaries, even if that use was not specifically COVID-related,” said Dave Kamper, a senior strategist at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank based in Washington, D.C. “However, it has got to be reported the right way.”
Arkansas Democrat Gazette
July 13, 2026