Here are nine communities where new families can find value without sacrificing quality of life. The cost estimates are based on Economic Policy Institute data and show what it takes for a family of four to live modestly but comfortably.
GO Banking Rates
July 17, 2025
Other changes that have been seen or may be seen as a result of the Trump administration include the following:
A rollback of the Biden Administration’s increases in the salary amounts employers must pay to be exempt from overtime payments under the Fair Labor Standards Act. However, on April 24, 2025, the DOL requested to pause the appeals in the federal courts stating that they intend on reconsidering the issue and rollbacks. “Department of Labor asks to pause litigation over overtime rule.” Economic Policy Institute blog, April 24, 2025.
Reuters
July 17, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank researching economic inequality, sanctuary laws do not seek to restrict or impede federal immigration agents from carrying out their duties.
WHQR Public Radio (North Carolina)
July 17, 2025
Investopedia
July 17, 2025
Since 2023, 28 states have introduced bills to roll back child labor protections, according to a study by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), and 12 states have enacted them.
Truthout
July 17, 2025
“Young people are obviously not one monolithic group. Some are going to college, some started college and didn’t finish,” Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, previously told BI, adding, “But I don’t think people always understand that this is what happens, the sort of ‘first hired, first fired’ phenomenon.”
Business Insider
July 17, 2025
A new report from economists at the Economic Policy Institute, however, finds the opposite to be true and that the net impact of mass deportation on employment – both for immigrants and U.S. born workers – is decidedly negative.
Indeed, 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 them held by U.S. born workers.
NC Newsline
July 17, 2025
Sources
Economic Policy Institute, How vouchers harm public schools, December 19, 2024
Politifact
July 17, 2025
It’s a “very clear upwards distribution of wealth” funded by “the largest cuts to our social programs we have ever seen,” said Samantha Sanders, director of government affairs and advocacy at the liberal Economic Policy Institute.
Cronkite News
July 17, 2025
Dr. Josh Bivens from the Economic Policy Institute (epi.org) joins Maggie to break down key trends—rising inflation now at 2.7%, looming recession risks, and the destabilizing effects of Trump’s tariff tactics—while emphasizing the critical role of an independent Federal Reserve.
Civic Media
July 17, 2025