Oklahoma’s minimum wage remains at $7.25 per hour, unchanged since 2008 and equal to the federal minimum wage, according to Square’s wage analysis. Meanwhile, a living wage for a single adult in Oklahoma City is $15.86 per hour, according to the Economic Policy Institute study cited by Workstream.
Journal Record
June 9, 2025
According to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute, the Trump budget bill allocates $185 billion for its mass deportation scheme, which means that Trump, the defender of the working man, wants to spend 80 times more on immigration enforcement than labor standards enforcement.
Counterpunch
June 9, 2025
If Republicans’ “Big Beautiful Bill” passes the Senate, ICE will have $45 billion to expand its detention capacity, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
New York Post
June 9, 2025
“Musk’s legacy under DOGE is something that has benefited him, largely,” said Margaret Poydock of the Economic Policy Institute, a group focused on fighting inequality that’s funded mostly by union or left-of-centre donors.
She cited several examples, like the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, which screens federal contractors for workplace bias and racial discrimination, and can fine and punish offenders.
It was auditing Tesla, but it was gutted quickly after Trump’s inauguration. The U.S. Agency for International Development, meanwhile, had been investigating Musk’s company Starlink over its service of satellites supplied to Ukraine; he eliminated the agency.
“I think that’s pretty egregious,” Poydock said.
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
June 9, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute, approximately ninety-two percent of Dollar General workers earn under $15 per hour—the worst rate among more than five dozen of the largest retail and food service firms in the country.
Verite News
June 9, 2025
“It is crucial that employees, especially low-wage workers, have the protections of unemployment insurance, regardless of the identity of their employer,” said Larry Dupuis, director of litigation and advocacy at Legal Action of Wisconsin. The law firm joined with groups including the Economic Policy Institute, the Century Foundation and the National Employment Law Project on a friend of the court brief supporting the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling.
Wisconsin Examiner
June 9, 2025
Samantha Sanders, Director of Government Affairs and Advocacy at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) (https://www.epi.org/) , joined the America’s Work Force Union Podcast to discuss the Trump administration’s actions against workers in its first 100 days, highlighting the administration’s attacks on collective bargaining rights, diversity initiatives and worker safety regulations.
Union Workforce Podcast
June 9, 2025
HORSLEY: Well, there are legal challenges that could undo a lot of these tariffs. Congress might get involved at some point. And Trump himself keeps changing the tariffs from week to week, sometimes day to day. So Adam Hersh of the Economic Policy Institute says it would be unwise to expect the tariff picture is going to just hold steady for 10 full years.
ADAM HERSH: It’s not a source of revenue that the government can really rely on, particularly when the president is aiming to use it as a bargaining chip that could go away the moment that the president decides to cut a deal or just to walk back on his threats.
NPR All Things Considered
June 9, 2025
When wages aren’t paid, they aren’t spent, and they aren’t taxed. That shrinks the economy, reducing buying power for consumers and municipalities alike. According to the Economic Policy Institute, research shows that minimum wage violations increase poverty among workers experiencing wage theft by 40.6% in New York.
My Twin Tiers
June 9, 2025
Adam Hersh of The Economic Policy Institute and John Whiten of The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy are our guests.
The Rick Smith Show
June 9, 2025