According to progressive think tank Economic Policy Institute, raising the federal minimum wage to $17 “by 2030 would impact 22,247,000 workers across the country, or 15 percent of the U.S. wage-earning workforce.” The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations said that had federal minimum wage “kept pace with workers’ productivity since 1968, the inflation-adjusted minimum wage would be $24 an hour.”
Newsweek
June 30, 2025
On July 1, minimum-wage increases are to be implemented across Alaska, Oregon and the District of Columbia. According to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), these rises will impact some 880,000 workers.
“These minimum wage increases will put more money in workers’ pockets, helping many of them and their families make ends meet,” the EPI says. “The average increase in annual wages for a full-time, year-round worker resulting from these minimum wage hikes ranges from $420 in Oregon to $925 in Alaska.”
El Diario
June 30, 2025
The Economic Policy Institute has estimated that the Raise the Wage Act would increase incomes for 32 million Americans, including one-third of Black workers and one-quarter of all Latino workers.
National Restaurant News
June 24, 2025
Such shifts can have implications for the broader economy, given that immigrants across the board accounted for 18 percent of total U.S. economic output in 2023, or $2.1 trillion in 2024 dollars, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
The Washington Post
June 24, 2025
The answer is math. When a factory closes 100 jobs, it kills 844 total. That’s not a guess. That’s the Economic Policy Institute’s number for durable manufacturing.
The Nation
June 24, 2025
“A really strong economy was handed off to the Trump administration,” says Josh Bivens, chief economist at the labor-affiliated Economic Policy Institute, “and so far, it has mostly held.”
LA Times
June 24, 2025
The D.C.-based liberal think tank Economic Policy Institute has said this amounts to a program that exploits and silences migrant workers, replacing year-round workers in the process. In some cases, U.S. prosecutors have accused farmers and recruiters of using the H-2A program to engage in forced labor trafficking.
Palabra (via MSN)
June 23, 2025
…the state decreases funding based on a per-pupil formula. According to the Economic Policy Institute, if just 5% of students in Virginia…[paywall].
The Virginian-Pilot
June 23, 2025
Talent continues to be the top priority for foreign investors. Our metrics remain unchanged from last year — we compared cities based on the size of their labour force, their share of college graduates, the number of universities nearby, the unemployment rate and the freedom of their labour market. Labour market freedom is modelled after the economic freedom index compiled by Canadian think-tank the Fraser Institute and research by Dean Stansel, a professor at Southern Methodist University who also worked on the Fraser Institute’s index.
Sources: Economic Policy Institute, FT Locations, Unionstats.com, US Bureau of Labor Statistics, US Census
Financial Times
June 23, 2025