According to the Economic Policy Institute, Arizona legislators underestimated the cost of their voucher program by tenfold. It was initially projected to cost $65 million and is now upwards of $708 million. The overruns are now leading to astate budget crisis.
KERA
January 6, 2026
The Economic Policy Institute reports that the average American household income as of 2023 was $80,610. To be in the top 20% of earners, you’d have to make almost double the average, over $130,500 a year.
MoneyWise
January 5, 2026
Another analysis from the Economic Policy Institute argues that proposals to end Affordable Care Act tax credits will hit Black Americans especially hard. In 10 major metropolitan areas, such changes could leave over 170,000 people without insurance, drive up annual premiums by roughly $740 million, and increase preventable deaths.
NewsOne
January 5, 2026
The minimum wage is going up in 19 states this week, with workers in Hawaii now earning as much as $2 more an hour. Collectively, these pay increases will boost paychecks by a total of $5 billion, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank in Washington, D.C.
Fast Company
January 5, 2026
The policy is expected to affect more than 8.3 million workers, according to a review from the lefty Economic Policy Institute.
New York Post
January 5, 2026
According to the Economic Policy Institute, allowing ACA enhanced tax subsidies to expire will increase poverty across all groups, with the effect most keenly experienced by those who’ve always had trouble accessing the medical care they need. These households are disproportionately working-class, Black, and brown — in other words, people who are already economically vulnerable.
The Motley Fool
January 5, 2026
When you consider that the typical worker’s real pay has risen only around 10% since the early 1970s, according to analyses of BLS wage data by the Hamilton Project and the Economic Policy Institute, you can see that Big Macs are now less affordable for the average worker than they used to be in the mid-20th century.
Money Digest
January 5, 2026
Other retirees take Social Security early because they feel they have no alternative. “Many people don’t have enough savings,” said Monique Morrissey, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, speaking to USA TODAY in early 2025. “And it also makes people nervous to draw down their savings, even if it’s the right thing to do.”
USA Today
January 5, 2026
Ohio’s 10 largest employers, including Walmart, Kroger and Procter & Gamble, employ nearly 250,000 people, the research firm reports. At these companies, the CEO-to-worker pay ratio averaged 324-to-1, with median worker pay at $52,996. Nationally, CEOs were paid 281 times as much as a typical worker in 2024, according to Economic Policy Institute.
Columbus Dispatch
January 5, 2026
Features interview with Adam Hersh.
TVW Washington
January 5, 2026