A larger percentage of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that was made permanent in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act go to the wealthiest Americans, according to analyses by the Tax Policy Center, Economic Policy Institute, and the Bipartisan Policy Center.
Idaho Capital Sun
August 22, 2025
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 22, 2025
The analysis compares median earnings data from the U.S. Census Bureau with cost of living estimates from the Economic Policy Institute to assess how far a graduate’s income goes across the country.
Upgraded Points
August 18, 2025
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