According to a fall 2024 study conducted by the Economic Policy Institute, there are 12.2% fewer school bus drivers…[paywall].
Tulsa World
April 16, 2025
…child labor protections-are analyzed in a 2023 report by the Economic Policy Institute, authored by Jennifer Sherer, Deputy Director of…[paywall].
Forbes
April 16, 2025
The Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank, reported in March that the Trump administration’s federal workforce cuts may jeopardize the careers of nearly 900,000 veterans, spouses of veterans and spouses of active military personnel. They makeup 30% of the entire federal government workforce. The federal government also gives hiring preferences to veterans. Veterans comprise just 5% of all employed Americans.
NC Newsline
April 16, 2025
But it’s true that globalization has hurt many workers and their communities, and that most economists long ignored that fact, which is why I’m proud of those opeds. I didn’t get everything right, but I—and many others, especially those at the Economic Policy Institute—were trying to warn folks that if we didn’t take this damage more seriously, there would be a backlash.
Jared Bernstein's Substack
April 16, 2025
The median annual price of infant child care in Denver is nearly $25,000 with toddler care surpassing $21,000, according to the most recent data provided by the Department of Labor. Colorado is ranked fifth out of the 50 states and the District of Columbia for most expensive infant care, according to the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute.
Denver Post
April 14, 2025
Constitutional challenges to the labor board have surfaced in recent years as “anti-union companies” sense a conservative Supreme Court might reconsider precedent, said Celine McNicholas, general counsel and director of policy and government affairs at the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank. The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the board in 1937, shortly after the National Labor Relations Act created the NLRB. It has been treated as settled law since.
McNicholas said she is not aware of any other colleges or universities that have argued that the NLRB is unconstitutional.
“Private universities are just like every other sort of large, private employer that wants to resist its workers’ right to organize,” she said.
Capital & Main
April 14, 2025
The Economic Policy Institute says between 2021 and 2023, more than $1.5 billion in stolen wages were recovered for workers thanks to federal, state and local efforts to combat wage theft.
Public News Service
April 14, 2025
Maryland also has one of the highest proportions of Black workers in the country, with African Americans accounting for over 30 percent of the state’s labor force according to the Economic Policy Institute.
The Baltimore Afro American Online
April 14, 2025
…potentially 50,000 new roles by 2030 in these sectors, per the Economic Policy Institute. It won’t be easy. Efficiency and competitiveness…[paywall].
Forbes
April 14, 2025
That share-the-wealth momentum, unfortunately, would soon begin ebbing. Since the late 1970s, as the Economic Policy Institute has detailed, only Americans of substantial means have been sharing in Corporate America’s economic bounty.
Inequality.org
April 14, 2025