Nationally, more than 14 million workers are paid less than $15 per hour, including overtime, tips, and commissions, according to the Economic Policy Institute’s Low Wage Workforce Tracker. Nearly 27 million make less than $17.
Common Dreams
July 21, 2025
I say all that just to explain why this is so important: For the Economic Policy Institute, Ben Zipperer has written a report looking at the economic impacts of the Trump Administration’s deportation agenda through several different lenses. The report finds that if the Trump Administration succeeds in deporting four million people over the next four years, they will wipe out six million jobs, with job losses in every single state. Nearly 19% of construction jobs could be eliminated, and just over 15% of child care jobs could disappear.
The Pitch from Civic Ventures
July 21, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute and local analyses from Hunger Free Vermont, wage growth has lagged behind these increases, leaving 40% of adults struggling to afford basics and forcing trade-offs like skipping meals to pay rent.
Vermont Daily Chronicle
July 21, 2025
Center-left think tanks were fewer, but powerhouses such as the Economic Policy Institute and Center on Budget and Policy Priorities had outsized influence because of their technical capacities and credibility, and over time, they built their own networks of state affiliates.
Democracy Journal
July 21, 2025
Margaret Poydock, a senior policy analyst at the labor-affiliated Economic Policy Institute. “These 63 rules they referenced were just two days’…[paywall].
LA Times
July 21, 2025
Here are nine communities where new families can find value without sacrificing quality of life. The cost estimates are based on Economic Policy Institute data and show what it takes for a family of four to live modestly but comfortably.
GO Banking Rates
July 21, 2025
Other changes that have been seen or may be seen as a result of the Trump administration include the following:
A rollback of the Biden Administration’s increases in the salary amounts employers must pay to be exempt from overtime payments under the Fair Labor Standards Act. However, on April 24, 2025, the DOL requested to pause the appeals in the federal courts stating that they intend on reconsidering the issue and rollbacks. “Department of Labor asks to pause litigation over overtime rule.” Economic Policy Institute blog, April 24, 2025.
Reuters
July 21, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank researching economic inequality, sanctuary laws do not seek to restrict or impede federal immigration agents from carrying out their duties.
WHQR Public Radio (North Carolina)
July 21, 2025
A dead end at the federal level gives employers a nearly bottomless source of delays to union efforts, said Margaret Poydock, senior policy analyst with the Economic Policy Institute. To that end, employers including SpaceX and Amazon have begun filing petitions with the National Labor Relations Board arguing that the agency itself is unconstitutional. Others have argued that, without quorum at the federal level, regional NLRB offices cannot schedule elections. Every new filing increases the likelihood of a delay.
“Delays at the NLRB can disrupt the momentum of union organizing campaigns and workers’ ability to hold their employers accountable for violating labor law,” said Poydock. Trump’s firing of Wilcox “created the expectation that future board members are expected to side with employers over workers,” she said.
Capital & Main
July 21, 2025
Investopedia
July 21, 2025