“Bloomberg Markets” follows the market moves across every global asset class and discusses the biggest issues for Wall Street. Today’s guest: Economic Policy Institute President Heidi Shierholz.
Bloomberg TV
October 14, 2025
Citing data from the U.S. Census and the Economic Policy Institute’s (EPI) Family Budget Calculator, the report notes that the median monthly expenses in Pueblo County are about $1,083 for housing and $608 for food, while median monthly taxes in Pueblo County are $612.
Pueblo Chieftain
October 14, 2025
Minnesota ranks third nationally for the cost of child care, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C., think tank. Parents pay more than $22,000 a year, on average for infant care, and as much as $40,000 a year for an infant and a toddler.
Sahan Journal
October 14, 2025
Estimates from the Economic Policy Institute — a liberal-leaning research group that has supported unemployment pay during strikes — suggest that such a policy would increase unemployment payouts by only about a tenth of a percent, based on current strike rates.
PennLive
October 14, 2025
Labor advocates have voiced caution based on the H-2B visa program, which serves seasonal industries.
The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) reports that wages certified for H-2B workers were up to 24.7 percent lower than national averages for comparable jobs, and that employers in major H-2B industries collectively committed more than $2.2 billion in wage-theft violations between 2000 and 2024.
Roofing Contractor
October 14, 2025
“The bill is designed to cause a shocking upward redistribution of income,” Heidi Shierholz, president of the Economic Policy Institute, wrote on the organization’s website. “Because … cuts to healthcare and food assistance are so broad and deep, and because the tax cuts for anybody who is not already rich are so paltry, the bill will cause the bottom 40 percent of households to actually lose income on average. … Meanwhile, households in the top 0.1 percent (those making more than $3.3 million per year) will gain $100,000-plus annually under this bill.”
Ms. Magazine
October 14, 2025
Because these firms are limited in how they’re able to collect information, Elise Gould, senior economist with the Economic Policy Institute, takes these reports with a small grain of salt compared to federal data.
“ It’s not that they’re less trustworthy,” she said. “It’s that they don’t provide the same kind of comprehensive picture month after month, year after year, that we’re able to compare over time.”
The government data is just richer, Gould said. “We get very accurate information about demographics. So everything from race and gender to education level to where they live.”
Marketplace
October 14, 2025
The United States population is getting older. And without immigration, the aging labor force will result in a shrinking of the working population, negatively impacting the country’s economy, according to a report released by the Economic Policy Institute on Tuesday.
The new report by EPI, a think tank that works to counter rising economic inequality in the United States, analyzed federal data sets and found that the Trump administration’s reported plans to deport 1 million people per year from the U.S. could undercut its own future projections of high gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the country.
“If the number of work hours falls because the labor force shrinks, this essentially translates one-for-one into slower aggregate growth,” writes report author Josh Bivens. “Policymakers who do not want to see the pace of GDP growth shrink relative to the past history of U.S. growth really only have one option: allowing larger flows of immigration.”
Documented NY
October 14, 2025
“They’re sort of, I guess refreshingly, explicit about how this is going to go down,” said Daniel Costa, an attorney with the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) who tracks the H-2A program. But this claim of mass carnage from immigration has a very particular intent: the only way out of the crisis, the Labor Department states, is to hire many more foreign workers to pick U.S. crops at lower wages, a direct transfer of income from workers in the fields to their agribusiness employers.
American Prospect
October 14, 2025
A report from the Economic Policy Institute in March noted that childcare is more expensive than rent in 17 states and Washington DC”, with the average cost of childcare for an infant in Washington DC at $2,363 per month, the highest average cost in the US.
The Guardian
October 14, 2025