According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the cost of childcare should be 7 percent of household income to be considered affordable. According to a study by the Economic Policy Institute, infant care for one child is 18.1 percent of a median family’s income in Massachusetts.
The Inquirer and Mirror
October 14, 2025
She went on to work in the appellate branch of the National Labor Relations Board and on Capitol Hill with Virginia U.S. Rep. Bobby Scott, contributing to labor legislation, including the PRO Act, which sought to protect workers’ right to organize. As associate labor counsel at the Economic Policy Institute, she advanced workers’ rights.
The Advocate
October 14, 2025
The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) is recommending steps states should take to bolster health and safety protections for workers to lock-in current federal protections and close gaps in areas OSHA does not regulate, arguing federal worker protections are under attack by the Trump administration. “Since OSHA was created, fatalities and work-related injuries have dropped by 65%, even while the U.S. workforce has doubled in size,” but there are numerous threats to federal workplace health and safety protections, EPI says in…
Inside OSHA
October 14, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute, a think-tank, outsourcing firms such as Cognizant, Deloitte and Tata have been heavy users of H-1B visas.
Financial Times
October 14, 2025
But according to the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, the benefits would heavily skew toward higher-income tipped workers.
Keystone Newsroom
October 14, 2025
“Workers who apply often do not receive jobs, and nobody is really checking to see if applications are coming in,” according to The American Prospect. “The system isn’t set up to prove that there’s a labor shortage of U.S. workers,” Daniel Costa, an attorney with the Economic Policy Institute who tracks the H-2A program, told the outlet.
Fast Company
October 14, 2025
Traditional retirement structures are also shifting. Fewer workers have access to defined benefit pensions (Cornell), and Social Security typically replaces only about 40% of pre-retirement income — roughly half of what most retirees need (Economic Policy Institute).
Housing Wire
October 14, 2025
Two-thirds of the approximately 600,000 H-1B workers are employed in computer-related or information technology firms, according to the Washington-based Economic Policy Institute. Despite clarification that the fee only applies to new applicants, Trump’s proclamation is expected to be challenged in the courts. The new fee effectively ends the H-1B category, the Cato Institute noted in a critique published on its website last month.
Global Finance Magazine
October 14, 2025
“What’s unique about the current moment is that so much of the damage is self-inflicted,” Valerie Rawlston Wilson, director of the program on race, ethnicity, and the economy at the Economic Policy Institute, told Investopedia. “Massive cuts to the federal workforce, historically high and broad tariffs, and mass deportations are all policy changes that happened quickly and in a highly chaotic way, creating an environment of uncertainty that dampens economic growth.”
Investopedia
October 14, 2025
“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