“I think it’s important to know that the cost of child care is not only a low-income family problem,” said Elise Gould with the Economic Policy Institute.
The cost of child care is rising faster than overall inflation and straining household budgets. Gould’s research finds that in most of the country, including New Mexico, day care is more expensive than public university tuition or the average cost of housing.
“Even those that are able to pay, they may forgo other kinds of investments in terms of being able to save for college, being able to save for retirement, or for a rainy day or job loss,” she said.
Marketplace
November 17, 2025
Virginia has been hit especially hard by the cutting of federal jobs. Black Americans account for about 26% of the federal workforce in the state, according to the Economic Policy Institute, and make up around 18% of the total state population.
Capital B
November 17, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute, workers born outside of the United States are more likely to experience minimum wage violations than their native counterparts.
The CT Mirror
November 17, 2025
The average cost of child care for a 4-year-old in the state has skyrocketed to nearly $18,000, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Boston Globe
November 17, 2025
Today, barely 58% of all working-class Americans are white non-Hispanics; according to a 2016 Economic Policy Institute study,
Real Clear Investigations
November 17, 2025
I wrote the book because there is something I am particularly good at and that is being wrong. I work for the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), which is basically the labor movement’s think tank. I remember one day in 2022, I was talking with some colleagues about the week ahead and they were like, “Hey, there is this union election for these Amazon workers in Staten Island. Should we pay any attention to that?” And I said, as confident as I had ever been in my life, “They are going to get crushed.”
Nonprofit Quarterly
November 17, 2025
The Economic Policy Institute’s estimate of latest week includes imputed values for New Mexico. Sources: U.S. Labor Department, Economic Policy Institute.
Barron’s
November 17, 2025
Research from the Economic Policy Institute demonstrates how the H-1B visa program is exploited to depress wages, with a majority of H-1B recipients receiving below market wages, and widespread wage theft reported throughout the tech industry, with at least $95 million underpaid to thousands of workers in 2020. “The cumulative loss of wages to workers in the United States—including both migrant workers and workers who are U.S. citizens—likely totals in the billions of dollars, just from the abuses of the H-1B program by one company,” HCL, which “contract[s] workers to such U.S. employers as Cisco, Disney, Google,” among other major corporations.
The American Conservative
November 17, 2025
Just last year, leading H-1B visa researcher Ron Hira published a study for the Economic Policy Institute that reviewed wage data from HCL Technologies, India’s third-largest outsourcing firm, whose clients include Microsoft, Disney, Boeing, FedEx, Google, T-Mobile, and Keurig Dr. Pepper, among others.
Breitbart
November 17, 2025
Similar legislation has been passed in at least 25 states, including Arizona, Louisiana, and Texas, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Miami Herald
November 17, 2025