Using data from the Economic Policy Institute, Investopedia calculated the total cost of childcare for two children throughout their childhoods, including infant and toddler care, preschool through high school, transportation, and meals.
Investopedia
September 2, 2025
Right-to-work laws don’t bring prosperity — they drive down wages. Research from the Economic Policy Institute shows that workers in right-to-work states earn 3.1% less than their counterparts in union-friendly states, even when adjusting for the cost of living.
Duluth News Tribune
September 2, 2025
Child care is also more expensive in Minnesota than most other states, according to research by the Economic Policy Institute. On average, infant care in Minnesota costs $22,000 per year — about 20% of the median household income.
Minnesota Reformer
September 2, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute, 67 million U.S. workers earn less than $25 an hour, which the pro-worker group One Fair Wage considers a living wage today.
WBAL-TV (Baltimore)
September 2, 2025
But it’s also unique. “Anything coming out of the private sector is unlikely to have the transparency that BLS and Census surveys have in terms of methodology,” said Zane Mokhiber, the director of data management and analysis at the Economic Policy Institute. “There really isn’t a measure, or a group of measures, that I know about that can replicate the information that we get from the BLS.”
Marketplace
September 2, 2025
Let me explain the root of the problem: According to the Economic Policy Institute, largely due to new technology, U.S. worker productivity grew 59.7% from 1979 to 2019, meaning workers have become almost 60% more productive at their jobs in the past four decades.
However, a worker’s reward for all that extra output over the same period has only been a 13.7% wage increase. That’s a gap of 46% between what workers are being underpaid relative to their output. In more practical terms, that’s about $9 an hour in lost potential earnings for the typical worker.
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Right now, our current politics is focused heavily on trade, and trade has been a major culprit in this inequality, as America made choices to be the world’s consumer rather than the world’s factory floor. Trade deals like NAFTA, which Donald Trump renegotiated into the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, displaced nearly 683,000 U.S. jobs, most in manufacturing.
MSNBC.com
September 2, 2025
Companies that are pulling back from diversity initiatives in the midst of pressure from the Trump administration could push the Black unemployment rate further up in the future, said Valerie Wilson, a labor economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank. “It definitely impacts people’s ability to gain employment,” she said.
Wall Street Journal
September 2, 2025
A 2023 report by the Economic Policy Institute found that states across the country are weakening child labor laws at the same time that violations are on the rise. The number of children working in violation of state law increased by 37% in the past year. Instead of cracking down on the violators, many states are weakening the laws.
Las Cruces Bulletin
August 29, 2025
Confirmed panelists include:
- Katelin Cruz of Western Illinois Dreamers
- Daniel Costa of the Economic Policy Institute
- Jose Oliva of the HEAL Food Alliance
- State Rep. Edgar Gonzalez, D-Chicago
Investigate Midwest
August 29, 2025
The Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, predicts that if Trump hits his goal of deporting four million people within four years, both immigrant workers in the U.S. and U.S.-born workers would suffer job losses, particularly in construction and child care, to the tune of 3.3 million jobs held by immigrants and 2.6 million held by those born in the U.S.
The Sunn Post
August 29, 2025