When we look at the top 1%, it’s clear which group has profited the most. According to a recent report from the Economic Policy Institute, the top 1% of U.S. wage earners took home 12.4% of all U.S. income as of 2023. While this inequality fell for that year thanks to a strong labor market, it remains a persistent issue: Wages for the top 1% have close to tripled since 1979, while those for the bottom 90% of earners have climbed by only 44%.
Investopedia
September 25, 2025
The gap between the weekly wages of US public school teachers and other college graduates not only continued to grow last year, but “reached a record high,” according to a report released Wednesday by a pair of think tanks.
Sylvia Allegretto, a senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research and research associate at the Economic Policy Institute, found that this gap, known as the teacher pay penalty, grew to 26.9% in 2024, “a significant increase from 6.1% in 1996.”
Common Dreams
September 25, 2025
After federal mass layoffs and a rollback of equity, diversity and inclusion initiatives earlier this year, the Black unemployment rate has risen to 7.5 percent as of August, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Afro American Newspapers
September 25, 2025
Economic Policy Institute: The Education Department reduced its workforce by almost half this year
WWNY TV 7 News
September 25, 2025
A 2020 study by the Economic Policy Institute found most H-1B employers do pay international workers less than market rate salaries.
Wisconsin Public Radio
September 25, 2025
Still, about half of workers over 50 have a physically demanding job, according to a 2023 study from the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank affiliated with the labor movement. More than half are exposed to unhealthy or hazardous situations at work, such as having to operate machinery, enduring low or high temperatures, and breathing in dust, smoke or toxic vapors. These hazards also tend to have more serious repercussions for older workers.
Capital & Main
September 25, 2025
According to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute, average hourly wages in industries employing H-2B visa workers were as much as 22% lower than national average hourly wages. The H-2B program is used for nonagricultural temporary workers, primarily in landscaping, construction and hospitality industries.
The Center Square
September 25, 2025
The White House has defended the new H-1B visa application fee, stating it is intended to level the playing field for U.S. workers, who it said are being “replaced with lower-paid foreign labor.” These claims that H-1B workers are underpaid, and that their hiring leads to the underemployment of U.S. workers, were supported by a 2021 report from the nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute (EPI) think tank.
“[T]he abuses of the program have been many,” EPI’s report found, “include[ing] vastly underpaying workers, laying off U.S. workers and replacing them with much lower-paid H-1B workers, forcing U.S. workers to train their H-1B replacements as a condition of receiving severance and unemployment insurance, and cheating the H-1B lottery to acquire additional visas.”
New York Amsterdam News
September 25, 2025
Farm labor contractors are the fastest-growing segment of farm employment, and they account for one-fourth of all federal wage and hour violations in the agricultural sector, according to a report from the Economic Policy Institute.
Prism Reports
September 25, 2025
A study by Investopedia calculated the price tag from eight categories considered quintessential to the classic American dream, including buying new cars, homeownership, marriage, kids and retirement. The financial journalism organization used data from several sources, such as the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Economic Policy Institute and industry research organizations.
The Oklahoman
September 25, 2025