According to Economic Policy Institute data, the pay for chief executives at major companies in the U.S. rose by 1,085% from 1978 to 2023, with salaries … [paywall].
Fortune
September 5, 2025
But the recovery from the pandemic was uniquely fast, Valerie Wilson, a labor economist and the director of the program on race, ethnicity, and the economy at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, said. There was also a robust policy response at the time to address Americans who were struggling and out of work.
This time, the circumstances feel more uncertain.
“It’s difficult to predict whether we can recover quickly,” Wilson said. “That will depend on how quickly Congress moves to counteract the recession.”
Yahoo Finance
September 5, 2025
Lynn Rhinehart, a senior fellow at the Economic Policy Institute and former general counsel at the AFL-CIO, the country’s largest labour union federation, said that Trump’s executive orders marked the beginning of a longer campaign against organised labour.
“Trump’s real motivation is clear – the executive order is a retaliatory action against federal employee unions who are standing in the way of Trump’s union-busting agenda,” she said.
That agenda doesn’t stop with executive orders. Trump fired NLRB chair Gwynne Wilcox in January, saying that her opinions had “unduly disfavoured” employers. The decision – which Wilcox continues to fight in the courts – leaves the country’s top labour watchdog without the quorum it needs to hear cases and issue decisions.
France 24
September 5, 2025
In April, Trump said that since the beginning of NAFTA, the U.S. lost 90,000 factories, reiterating the need for American reshoring. While the figure matched what was used in a 2020 report from the Economic Policy Institute, revised Census data used in that report found a net loss of 70,500 manufacturing facilities between 1997 to 2022, CBS News first reported. About a quarter of those factories had four or fewer workers.
Fortune
September 5, 2025
“It seems likely that the Trump administration will use Friday’s jobs report to continue to argue that their immigration policies are creating job market opportunities for U.S.-born workers, but this claim is false and based on a misreading of data from the household survey,” Ben Zipperer, senior economist at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, wrote in a blog.
“If anything, the job market for U.S.-born workers is worse so far in 2025 than it was in preceding years.”
NBC News
September 5, 2025
These effects are reshaping the local economy and call into question whether tariffs are achieving their stated goal of boosting U.S. jobs and manufacturing. Joining us on AirTalk today for more is Adam S. Hersh, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, and Ching Fu, Meet Fresh General Manager.
LAist
September 3, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, CEO pay increased 1,085 percent from 1978 to 2023, while the average worker’s earnings rose 24 percent.
The Columbian
September 2, 2025
In 2019, the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., a nonprofit and nonpartisan think tank focused on economic policy, found that of 3,061 counties in the nation, Saratoga County ranked 28th in income inequality, just three spaces below San Francisco.
Albany Times Union
September 2, 2025
In Massachusetts, 148,000 jobs could be lost if the administration carries out its intention to deport 4 million people over four years, according to the Economic Policy Institute, as employers grapple with a reduced labor force and struggle to stay open.
The Boston Globe
September 2, 2025
Meanwhile, data from the Economic Policy Institute shows a growing productivity gap. Since 1980, worker productivity has grown 1.4% annually, while hourly compensation has grown only 0.6%.
KOB-TV (New Mexico)
September 2, 2025