A LendingTree survey found that the city has more Black-owned businesses than anywhere else in the country. But that doesn’t mean economic equity has been achieved. According to the Economic Policy Institute, Black residents in Atlanta face an unemployment rate of 5 percent, nearly double the 2.6 percent rate for white residents.
Blavity
July 24, 2025
- The Economic Policy institute estimates that $102,734 is the income level required for an adequate standard of living. That income translates to $11,420 in combined federal and state income taxes in the Fresno metro area.
The Sun Joaquin Valley Sun
July 24, 2025
It’s an especially compelling idea when you consider that most working Americans are struggling to get by, while CEOs were paid 351 times as much as the typical worker in 2020, according to the Economic Policy Institute. But what would happen if this model were scaled up, not just to one business, but to the entire U.S. economy?
GO Banking Rates
July 24, 2025
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- Economic Policy Institute. “Summer 2025 Minimum Wage Increases.”
Investopedia
July 24, 2025
The Economic Policy Institutereports that the top 5% of the population control 63.5% of…[paywall].
Omaha World-Herald
July 22, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute, infant care in Arizona costs $15,625 annually — well above the $14,215 residents pay to attend Arizona State University.
KJZZ
July 22, 2025
Much of what the Trump administration has done so far through cuts and tariffs has reduced America’s economic resilience and economic dynamism, said Adam Hersh, senior economist at Economic Policy Institute, during the second panel. Broad-based tariffs have thrown businesses into turmoil, while gutting support for federal scientific research and attacking universities where innovation occurs while be costly in the long run, he said.
Although the manufacturing tax scheduled for year’s end was disbanded, the sweeping policy bill creates other issues. “Businesses don’t invest because the cost of capital is low,” he said. They do so because there’s a demand for the products they sell. Just lowering the cost of capital isn’t going to do anything to stimulate investment.”
Institute for Supply Management
July 22, 2025
But with the announcement in March 2023 that the mill was closing, Canton lost its life source, and with it any sense of certainty about its economic future. It became one of more than 60,000 manufacturing hubs that have been wiped off America’s map since the late 1990s. For every 100 factory jobs lost in a community, 744 other jobs disappear, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
New York Times
July 22, 2025
It’s an article of faith in many conservative circles that the Trump administration’s tough anti-immigrant policies will free up jobs for U.S. born workers. New research from Economic Policy Institute senior economist Ben Zipperer, however, demonstrates conclusively that the opposite is the case. Zipperer’s calculations actually show that the net impact of mass deportation on employment – both for immigrants and U.S. born workers – is decidedly negative.
Indeed, he calculates that the administration’s goal of deporting one-million people per year will lead to a loss of nearly six million jobs over the coming years — more than forty percent of which will be jobs now held by U.S. born workers. The construction and child care industries will be among the hardest hit. Zipperer’s report is entitled “Trump’s deportation agenda will destroy millions of jobs,” and earlier this week, NC Newsline caught up with him at his Washington office.
NC Newsline
July 22, 2025
Samantha Sanders, director of government affairs and advocacy at the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute, said the repeal would not constitute a win for women.
“Saying we actually don’t think they need those protections would be pretty devastating to a workforce that performs really essential work and is very heavily dominated by women, and women of color in particular,” Sanders said.
Associated Press
July 22, 2025