A FAQ on the site helpfully notes, “According to the Economic Policy Institute, for every 100 people hired on a construction project, 226 total indirect jobs are created. For every $1 spent, an average of more than $3 are contributed to the economy.”
Well, if it means jobs, then we guess the government can spend whatever it wants.
Obviously, no it doesn’t. The public should know a bit more than what the Legislature has been willing to provide. But all this time later, there’s little transparency.
Pasadena Star-News
July 28, 2025
Not surprisingly, New York’s tax bill and tax rate exceed the national average. Nationwide, the average tax bill is $15,522 — which is 56.4% lower than New York’s — and the average tax rate is 13.6%, which is less than that of 16 states.
Data for this study came from the 2025 Economic Policy Institute Family Budget Calculator and the U.S. Census Bureau. The report defined middle-class households as having two adults and two children.
Long Island Life & Politics
July 28, 2025
According to the national Economic Policy Institute, average annual expenses for infant care in Nebraska have reached $14,106, or about $5,000 more per year than in-state tuition for four-year public college. For a 4-year-old, child care costs have approached nearly $12,000 a year.
Nebraska Examiner
July 28, 2025
Districts across the country struggle to find drivers, with 12.2% fewer school bus drivers on the road in September of 2024 compared to five years prior, according to a study published in the Economic Policy Institute.
Canton Repository
July 28, 2025
Meanwhile, nonpartisan think tanks like the Economic Policy Institute say Initiative 82 should remain and, in a recent report, said, “There is little evidence that increasing tipped wages is hurting the DC restaurant industry.” The report also highlighted that the number of restaurants in Washington, D.C. has grown since the implementation of Initiative-82.
WUSA 9
July 28, 2025
For more details, we turn to Ben Zipperer, an economist with the Economic Policy Institute, based in Washington, DC. According to his research, ICE arrests, detentions and deportations of noncitizen workers would also harm U.S.-born workers, an impact that has yet to appear on the public radar screen.
“Immigrant workers make up a substantial part of the workforce in the United States: 1 in 5 workers is an immigrant, and about half of immigrants are noncitizens,” according to Zipperer. “Because of their sizable presence in the workforce, large-scale attempts to remove them will lead to extensive employment losses for foreign-born workers. What is less apparent, however, is the impact that arrests, detentions, and deportations of immigrants will have on millions of U.S.-born workers who will lose their jobs. The widespread job losses for both immigrants and U.S.-born workers will undercut the narrative that abruptly removing immigrants will somehow magically increase employment opportunities for U.S.-born workers.”
Counterpunch
July 28, 2025
We’ve all been there. Maybe it’s when you grab a coffee in the morning or when you finish up a dinner out with friends. Maybe it’s when you least expect it, like at the merch table at a concert. You tap your card, only to be confronted with the dreaded tip screen. There’s a lot of talk about how much to tip and if you even should tip (more on that later), but why do we add gratuity in America in the first place?
Nina Mast has the answer. She’s an analyst at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank in Washington, DC. The point of the tip is to make up the difference between the minimum wage and the tipped minimum wage. “The tipped minimum wage is the lower minimum wage that employers can pay tipped workers with the expectation that tips will bring their pay up to the regular minimum wage rate,” she says. “Under federal law, the tipped minimum wage is $2.13 an hour. So tipped workers need to earn an additional $5.12 in tips to bring them up to the federal minimum wage, which is $7.25 an hour.”
On this week’s episode of Explain It to Me, Vox’s weekly call-in podcast, we find out how this system began and why we still have it.
Vox Explain It To Me Podcast
July 28, 2025
The New Yorker
July 28, 2025
Nationally, more than 14 million workers are paid less than $15 per hour, including overtime, tips and commissions, according to the Economic Policy Institute’s Low Wage Workforce Tracker. Nearly 27 million make less than $17.
The Triangle Tribune
July 24, 2025