Much of this, Mitchell said, is the consequence of federal decisions that have hit D.C. residents hard. That includes deep cuts to the federal workforce, an industry that employed over 13% of District residents as of March 2025, according to the Economic Policy Institute. The 2026 Hunger Report found that the D.C. metro area — which included Arlington and Alexandria — lost 104,000 jobs between January 2025 and January 2026, far more than any other major metropolitan area in the country.
51st News
September 16, 2026
Earlier this month, workers said, they were called into a meeting held by Government Resources Consultants of America. That firm, according to filings to the U.S. Department of Labor, are generally hired to collect information on labor organizing activities, or to persuade staff against organizing. Labor organizations, like the Economic Policy Institute, refer to Government Resources Consultants of America, and organizations like it, as union-busters.
WXXI (Rochester NY NPR)
September 16, 2026
But the pay gap could change again if last year’s cuts to Medicaid and food assistance make it harder for families to find care for children and older relatives, or to keep the healthcare they need to keep working, said Ismael Cid-Martinez, an economist at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
“I want to be careful about not making too much out of one year,” Cid-Martinez said.
Investopedia
September 16, 2026
Nearly nine decades later, Sanders argues that the standard has outlived the economy that it was built on. Since 1979, net productivity has climbed roughly 90% while typical workers’ hourly pay has risen about 33%, according to Economic Policy Institute data—a gap advocates for shorter workweeks cite as part of the broader case for reform.
Fortune
September 16, 2026
As for the U.S., tipping didn’t become widespread here until after the Civil War, when wealthy Americans returning from Europe helped bring the custom home. But in America, tipping also took on a much more troubling dimension: businesses employing formerly enslaved Black workers, particularly in hospitality and railroad service, used gratuities to supplement low wages. The Economic Policy Institute called tipping “a racist relic and a modern tool of economic oppression in the South.”
Click Orlando
September 15, 2026
Economic Policy Institute data has found that she isn’t alone as unemployment among young college graduates and young workers without a degree has been rising slightly faster than the overall unemployment rate.
Newsweek
September 14, 2026
“The average CEO makes 300 times what their average worker makes — three hundred times. And it’s only getting worse,” Brown said. “It’s getting worse because Jon Husted is in the middle of rigging this system.”
According to a report from the Economic Policy Institute, CEOs make 281 times their average employee at 350 of the largest publicly traded U.S. companies by revenue in 2024. The report found that in 1965, CEOs were paid 21 times that of an average employee.
Dayton Daily News
September 14, 2026
The Institute for Women’s Policy Research found that Black women experienced a net loss of 113,000 jobs during 2025. The Economic Policy Institute found one of the sharpest one-year declines in Black women’s employment in a quarter century, with particularly significant losses among college-educated and public-sector workers.
Essence
September 14, 2026
CouponFollow wondered the same thing, which is why researchers at the site conducted and published a report that found the minimum cost of living in the country.
The report is based on an analysis of the Economic Policy Institute’s Family Budget Calculator — which estimates the yearly costs of things like housing and food, as well as taxes for a single adult living alone — as well as the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. Researchers specifically focused 100 biggest metro areas in the country.
PennLive
September 14, 2026
If typical worker pay had kept pace with productivity over the past 45 years, today’s typical paycheck would be roughly 40% larger. That income went to shareholders and corporate executives. A new Economic Policy Institute report finds that tripling union density to 30% — where Canada sits today, where the United States was before decades of attacks on collective bargaining — would shift $1.2 trillion annually back to working people, raise the median worker’s pay by 14.5%, close racial wage gaps by more than one-third and produce annual wage increases ranging from $1,900 to $10,600 by state.
America's Work Force Union Podcast
September 14, 2026