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
With these factors in mind, minimum or low-wage jobs are increasingly unsustainable for most. In 2025, a full-time job at the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour puts a worker under the poverty threshold, according to the Economic Policy Institute. While states can opt to have higher minimum wages, 20 states are at or below the federal minimum as of 2025.
Stacker
June 23, 2025
Thirty states have adopted their own minimum wages above the 2009 federal rate, according to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). These include Hawley’s home state of Missouri, which increased its baseline to $13.75 and plans to raise it to $15.00 starting January 1, 2026.
Ben Zipperer, senior economist with the EPI, a progressive think tank that supports raising the minimum wage, told Newsweek that a Republican’s sponsorship of the bill “is admission that minimum wages are a very popular policy to correct the widespread problem of low pay.” However he expressed skepticism that the party would “abandon their consistent role as the chief obstacle to federal minimum wage increases.”
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Zipperer said that the hike proposed by Hawley and Welch, or the Democratic bill introduced earlier this year which would raise this incrementally to $17 an hour by 2030, would “unambiguously benefit low wage workers and their families and communities.” He cited a 2024 EPI study which found that most research into the topic has found either no resulting job losses or “only small disemployment effects.”
Newsweek
June 23, 2025
“I think (Hawley’s sponsorship) is an admission that minimum wage increases are very popular,” said Ben Zipperer, senior economist with the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal think tank that supports a higher minimum wage.
“I would like to be optimistic about this. I do think it’s an important recognition that the problem with low pay continues to be a concern,” he said.
CNN Business
June 23, 2025
Jennifer Sherer (right), director of the State Worker Power Initiative with the Economic Policy Institute, speaks during the Johnson County manufactured home park press conference June 18.
Corridor Business Journal
June 23, 2025