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
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