Ironically, the setting underscores economic divides. Teton County, which includes Jackson Hole, is the most unequal county in the entire U.S., according to the Economic Policy Institute. There, the top 1 percent earn more than 142 times the income of the remaining 99 percent.
Observer
August 25, 2025
The federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour has not changed since 2009 and isn’t likely to change again anytime soon. However, a dozen states automatically hike the wage each year to account for inflation, the Economic Policy Institute reported.
GO Banking Rates
August 25, 2025
A fresh Economic Policy Institute (EPI) analysis examines some elevated risks for the race with the largest Black populations in 10 metro areas across America. It comes as Trump’s regime partially retreated from his latest anti-equity action to federally oust the Metropolitan Police Department in the nation’s capital.
Black Enterprise
August 25, 2025
Also, whenever the economy is heading in or out of recession, says Heidi Shierholz, former chief economist of the Labor Department and now president of the Economic Policy Institute, the jobs numbers will be less stable and subject to more frequent revision.
The American Prospect
August 25, 2025
What’s happening at the national level does trickle down said Heidi Shierholz, at the Economic Policy Institute.
“If we enter a recession, unemployment really across the board rises,” Shierholz said. “When we enter a recovery, unemployment across the board tends to fall.”
So even though state unemployment rates might be very different — they tend to move in tandem.
“If the overall unemployment rate in the United States continues to rise as it has been, there will still be differences in unemployment rate levels from state to state,” Shierholz said.
But she said unemployment will rise virtually everywhere.
Marketplace
August 25, 2025
There is no single source for comparing child care costs to college, but among those that have done so is a national analysis by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. EPI found that college is cheaper than child care in 38 states.
Arizona Republic
August 25, 2025
According to research by the Economic Policy Institute, those in the lowest 10% saw wages grow by a stunning 15.3% between 2019 and 2024 outpacing all other groups and twice as much as the median.
El Diario
August 25, 2025
To support his research, Jake Rosenfeld has received funding from the Economic Policy Institute, Washington Center for Equitable Growth, Urban Institute, and the National Science Foundation.
The Conversation
August 25, 2025
Heidi Shierholz, President of the Economic Policy Institute and former Chief Economist at the Department of Labor under President Obama, warns of a slowing US economy, with tariffs hiking prices, tax cuts inflating deficits, wage boosts via minimum hikes and unions, unrigged labor data despite BLS firing, and mass deportations costing 6M jobs including for Americans.
David Lin Report (YouTube)
August 25, 2025
Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute and an expert in wage dynamics, told Newsweek that areas such as leisure and hospitality “experienced much faster wage growth coming out of the pandemic because of the sheer numbers of jobs lost and the need for employers to scramble to attract and retain workers.”
These effects, she said, were more pronounced for those at the lower end of wage distribution, who required more “enticement” from employers to return to less-compensated, face-to-face roles—bargaining power that was reinforced by the financial supports put in place by policymakers during the pandemic.
Newsweek
August 25, 2025