Dave Kamper, Minnesota-based senior state policy strategist at the Economic Policy Institute, interacted with Hortman over the years and marveled at her ability to engage on a human level in the legislative world.
“How you make sure everyone’s feeling heard and everyone’s priorities are met, that’s a difficult thing to do,” Kamper acknowledged. “It requires time, it requires attention, it requires a genuine commitment to the well-being of the other folks. It can’t just be a transactional relationship.”
Public News Service
June 30, 2025
Taxes on tips have a big impact on underpaid workers. Nina Mast, an economic analyst with the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, has even likened tips to a modern tool of racist oppression in the South. “Tipped workers are more likely to be people of color, women, women of color, or single parents, and are disproportionately born outside of the U.S.,” she wrote in a paper published last June.
MarketWatch
June 30, 2025
Removing the provider tax provision threatens the very survival of the bill, because it had been expected to contribute significantly to Republican’s goal of slashing costs to fund tax cuts for the rich.
“There’s a lot of really bad stuff in there, but I don’t know that I’ve seen a bigger sticker price on anything else Byrded out yet,” said Samantha Sanders, director of government affairs and advocacy at the Economic Policy Institute.
The American Prospect
June 30, 2025
Stories such as Harris’ may turn out to be part of a trend that real estate experts are watching for closely: Public servants fired or otherwise impacted by DOGE cuts leaving the Beltway. In the DMV region, encompassing D.C., parts of Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia, more than 500,000 people work directly for the federal government, according to data from the 2023 American Community Survey and 2025 Current Employment Statistics compiled by the Economic Policy Institute this year.
Talking Points Memo
June 30, 2025
Per a recent report from the Economic Policy Institute, the South’s anti-worker policies both undermine job quality and depress worker power, in particular, those of Black and Latinx workers, lessons which the Arkansas-based Walmart has likely extrapolated to other locations.
Black Enterprise
June 30, 2025
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