The website used sources including the US Census Bureau 2023 County Business Patterns (CBP), US Census Bureau 2023 American Community Survey, Department of Labor, Zillow and EPI Economic Policy Institute.
Asbury Park Press
August 18, 2025
Having children isn’t what it used to be, either. For boomers, raising a child cost $4,000 a year. While in 2023, that figure skyrocketed, now you need almost $18,000 , making it four times harder to have a family.
And that’s not even considering that childcare alone costs $13,128 per child per year, according to the Economic Policy Institute, which represents between 10% of income for couples and 35% for single parents.
El Tiempo Latino
August 18, 2025
The average U.K. full-time worker earned £37,430 last year, or 122 times less than the typical FTSE 100 chief. That gap is even higher in the U.S., where the bosses of the biggest listed companies made around 290 times that of the average worker in 2023, according to a report from the Economic Policy Institute.
CNBC
August 18, 2025
“The non-enforcement policy announcement is essentially making what they plan to do through the legal process effective now already,” said Samantha Sanders, director of government affairs and advocacy at Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank focused on economic issues that impact workers.
“Most of these workers are going to rely on the federal government to enforce their rights on this,” Sanders said.
WESA (Pittsburgh NPR)
August 18, 2025
The Economic Policy Institute’s (EPI) Productivity-Pay Tracker shows a stark divergence between economic growth and pay for nonsupervisory workers since 1979; while US productivity has increased by 86 percent, hourly pay has only increased by 32 percent.
Jacobin
August 18, 2025
Young adults are finding it especially tough to secure employment in today’s job market. This spring has featured the highest unemployment for people ages 16-24 since the pandemic, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Baltimore Banner
August 18, 2025
“A lot of these solutions, although they might chip away at the problem, it’s not going to be as comprehensive,” said Sebastian Hickey, an analyst at the Economic Policy Institute who has studied school transportation issues.
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Hickey, the Economic Policy Institute analyst, worries that a loss of funding driven by school choice can make it harder for districts to solve their transportation problems by hiring more drivers or increasing pay.
Chalkbeat
August 18, 2025
The cost of childcare now exceeds the price of college tuition in 38 states and Washington, according to an analysis conducted by the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank.
Time Magazine
August 18, 2025
Advocacy groups like the Economic Policy Institute say Trump’s messaging makes clear “that he expects the BLS commissioner to only release data that shows the economy is booming—even if it means the data must be manipulated or changed by political appointees.”
Bloomberg Law
August 18, 2025
Immigration critics argue that an influx of foreign talent undercuts US wages and employment — and companies use the system to save money. However, many economic studies contradict this view. Research from the Economic Policy Institute, the Brookings Institution, and University of California Davis have consistently found that skilled immigrants create jobs, complement domestic talent, and boost innovation.
Information Week
August 18, 2025