The LaGuardia victory comes amid a broader national trend of wage growth for low-wage workers. Economic Policy Institute research shows that between 2019 and 2024, low-wage workers experienced historically fast real wage growth of 15.3%, representing a significant reversal of long-term inequality trends.
Hoodline
June 30, 2025
Child care in Arkansas is expensive. According to data from the Economic Policy Institute, infant care averages about $8,873 annually, and only one in four families can afford it when compared to a federal standard that says a family shouldn’t spend more than 7% of its yearly income on care. The average cost comes in just shy of in-state tuition at a four-year public college.
Arkansas Times
June 30, 2025
As a study by the Economic Policy Institute documented, the steady erosion in private sector unionism is the direct result of “corporate practices and legal strategies that have undercut the ability of workers to organize and bargain.”
Counterpunch
June 30, 2025
The gulf between their pay and workers’ wages shrieks of injustice; according to the Economic Policy Institute, the CEO-to-worker compensation ratio reached 399-1 in 2021; in 1965, it was only 20-1. From 2019 to 2021, CEO pay rose 30.3% while those workers who kept their jobs through the pandemic got a raise of 3.9%.
Bloomberg
June 30, 2025
President Trump and his team harmed workers 100 ways just in the first 100 days, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Some top-line items: He’s endangered workers’ lives by seeking to close offices of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which enforces workplace safety laws, and by functionally shutting down the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, or NIOSH, which researches prevention of workplace injury and illness.
New Republic
June 30, 2025
More than 800,000 workers in two states —Alaska and Oregon — as well as Washington, D.C., will be impacted by higher minimum wages that take effect July 1, according to the left-leaning economic think tank Economic Policy Institute (EPI). Additionally, a dozen cities and counties are also set to boost their baseline pay rates next month.
CBS Moneywatch
June 30, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), more than 800,000 workers in Alaska, Oregon and Washington, D.C. alone will see their baseline pay go up next month. Another dozen local jurisdictions—mostly in California—will also implement increases.
Newsweek
June 30, 2025
Wage floor increases beginning July 1 in Alaska, Oregon and Washington, D.C., will benefit more than 880,000 workers by collectively raising their earnings by more than $397 million, according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank.
Stateline
June 30, 2025
Meanwhile, as the deeply progressive Economic Policy Institute points out, labor law enforcement has a budget of just $2.3 billion — despite having the herculean task of protecting 170 million workers. That works out to $13.50 per worker for labor law enforcement, compared to more than $18,000 per undocumented immigrant.
The Economic Times
June 30, 2025