Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill Act” includes about $45 billion for ICE to expand its detention center capacity, according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute.
Raw Story
June 23, 2025
If Republicans manage to push their so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” through the Senate, ICE could see a massive cash injection of $45 billion to ramp up detention capacity, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Daily Beast
June 23, 2025
The Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, said it believed a better way to help workers would be to raise the federal minimum wage.
A “no tax on tips” provision “gives the illusion of helping lower-income workers — while the rest of the legislation hands huge giveaways to the rich at the expense of the working class,” EPI economic analysts wrote Thursday.
CNBC
June 23, 2025
The Economic Policy Institute’s Family Budget Calculator (which takes into account housing, food, transportation, healthcare, taxes, and other necessities) estimates that a household with two adults and no children living in Multnomah County would spend $6,346 a month on average or $76,154 a year.
Investopedia
June 23, 2025
The average cost of child care in Arizona is $15,625 dollars a year, or $1,300 dollars a month, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs says that’s something that needs to change.
KTAR News
June 23, 2025
However, you’ll be happy to hear that South Dakota has significantly more affordable childcare, with the Economic Policy Institute finding that childcare costs were $8,680 in the state, as of February 2025.
MoneyDigest
June 23, 2025
The spending bill passed by Republicans in the House of Representatives would give the Trump administration more resources to carry out those policies, quintupling spending on immigration enforcement to $185 billion, according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute think tank.
Investopedia
June 23, 2025
But productivity growth later resumed, reflected in a chart by Lawrence Mishel and Josh Bivens of the Economic Policy Institute that has been reproduced so …[paywall].
Project Syndicate
June 23, 2025
Research from the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank based in Washington, D.C., shows that voucher programs in Ohio result in majority Black school systems such as the Cleveland Metropolitan School District losing millions in education funding.
Dallas Weekly
June 23, 2025
A recent Economic Policy Institute brief detailed that “tariffs are a regressive tax, meaning people with lower incomes will pay a larger share of their earnings in taxes than high-income people. Tariffs are essentially a consumption tax, and consumption as a share of income tends to fall as incomes rise.”
Nonprofit Quarterly
June 23, 2025