According to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), CEOs were paid 290 times more than the average worker in 2023 — compared to 21 times as much in 1965.
Entrepreneur
May 1, 2025
The Economic Policy Institute, a Washington-based nonprofit think tank headed by union leaders, estimates a family of one adult and one child in Milwaukee County needs at least $73,721 “to attain a modest yet adequate standard of living.”
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
May 1, 2025
- Teacher pay gap. Compared to other college-educated professionals with similar experience, teachers in Kentucky only earn 75 cents on the dollar in comparison. (Economic Policy Institute, September 2024)
WBKO (Kentucky)
May 1, 2025
Nina Mast, policy and economic analyst with Economic Policy Institute, evaluated the issue in a report titled “Forced prison labor in the “Land of the Free,” and joined us to share more.
Urban flooding has long plagued the Treme neighborhood in New Orleans. Now residents are taking matters into their own hands.
WWNO (Louisiana NPR)
May 1, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute, women were paid an average of 21.8% less than men in 2023. To make matters worse, a 2024 study conducted by the TIAA Institute and Ipsos found that, on average, women retire two years earlier, live three years longer and retire with 30% less income than men.
Kiplinger
May 1, 2025
Adam Hersh from the Economic Policy Institute said, “My biggest concern about this downturn in economic growth is that the Trump administration doesn’t seem to have policies in place that are going to counteract the slowdown in economic growth.”
This decline in GDP reverses the 2.4% gain seen in the previous quarter. However, the White House remains optimistic, pointing to new investments as evidence of an “economic boom.”
Hearst TV
May 1, 2025
The average cost of child care is $1,000 per month in Montana, Tennessee, Florida and other states and can run even more in other states, including Ohio ($1,400 per month), Maryland ($1,600 per month) and California ($1,800), according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Fairfield Sun Times
April 30, 2025
Today, I’ll lay out some of the most egregious actions taken by the Trump regime in the first 100 days to attack unions and working people in both the public and private sectors. Much of this is based on indispensable research by the Economic Policy Institute and its just released 100 Days, 100 Ways Trump Hurt Workers. (For more great reports like this, you can subscribe to EPI here.)
Michael Podhorzer Substack
April 30, 2025
Americans who work 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year, at the federal minimum wage no longer make enough money to keep themselves out of poverty.
For workers in the 20 states that have not passed their own higher minimum wage, working full-time at $7.25 brings in $15,080 per year, short of the poverty line of $15,650 for a single-person household, according to a new report by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI).
Popular Information
April 30, 2025
The Department of Health and Human Services set the federal poverty threshold at $15,650 for a single-person household, meaning that in these 21 states, which are concentrated in the South, millions of full-time workers are earning below the poverty line. One in five workers with just one job in those states lives in poverty, according to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI).
Latin Times
April 30, 2025