Read a report outlining how the passage of the Reconciliation Bill will harm vulnerable communities and the nation at large written by Repairers of the Breach, Institute for Policy Studies and the Economic Policy Institute here.
The Contrarian Substack
July 21, 2025
New research found that the efforts by the Trump administration and Congress to cut the federal workforce, funding to states, and public services will disproportionately harm Black women who hold many of these jobs, specifically in the South. Data from the Economic Policy Institute shows Black women make up more than one in five local government workers and more than one in four state government workers in Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana, and Maryland.
Black Enterprise
July 21, 2025
President Trump’s increasingly aggressive approach to the deportation of undocumented migrants could have massive economic implications. Multiple studies, including one conducted by the Economic Policy Institute, found that mass deportations could result in a meaningful economic contraction, reducing wages and driving up unemployment rates among American workers. While the Trump administration maintains its migrant expulsion policies will have the opposite effect, the potential consequences of deportations remain particularly stark in states where undocumented workers make up large shares of the labor force.
24/7 Wall Street
July 21, 2025
Teton County and the town of Jackson have the most unequal income in the US. Data from the Economic Policy Institute states that the top 1% of residents in Teton County generate 142 times the income of the bottom 99%.
Business Insider
July 18, 2025
Additional figures were drawn from the Economic Policy Institute and U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Live Now FOX
July 18, 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.
Common Dreams
July 18, 2025
I say all that just to explain why this is so important: For the Economic Policy Institute, Ben Zipperer has written a report looking at the economic impacts of the Trump Administration’s deportation agenda through several different lenses. The report finds that if the Trump Administration succeeds in deporting four million people over the next four years, they will wipe out six million jobs, with job losses in every single state. Nearly 19% of construction jobs could be eliminated, and just over 15% of child care jobs could disappear.
The Pitch from Civic Ventures
July 18, 2025
Teton County and the town of Jackson have the most unequal income in the US. Data from the Economic Policy Institute states that the top 1% of residents in Teton County generate 142 times the income of the bottom 99%.
Business Insider
July 18, 2025
Additional figures were drawn from the Economic Policy Institute and U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Live Now FOX
July 18, 2025