According to the Economic Policy Institute, the average estimated expenses tied to living in Cortland County for two adults without children is $5,019 per month, or $60,231 per year.
MoneyDigest
August 13, 2025
Features interview with Valerie Wilson
NPR 1A
August 13, 2025
Daniel Costa, a lawyer at the Economic Policy Institute, said there’s concern that removing the “temporary” status on the visas could risk creating a massive class of workers who are “permanently temporary.”
These workers could be trapped year after year in a dependent visa status, unable to change jobs, and lacking the full rights of other workers, Costa said.
Minnesota Star Tribune
August 13, 2025
The Economic Policy Institute has slightly different numbers but the same trend: Wage growth shot up with inflation, then slowed as inflation ebbed. However, wage growth in 2025 remains higher than during the first half of Trump’s first term, when it generally ran under 3%; in the last half, it topped 3% and was running at 3.4% before the pandemic hit.
Cardinal News (VA)
August 13, 2025
Heidi Shierholz, who served as the chief economist at the Department of Labor under President Barack Obama and now runs the nonpartisan labor think tank the Economic Policy Institute, joins us to talk about the BLS, the important data it compiles, and what the hell a revision is.
Crooked Media What A Day Podcast
August 13, 2025
Economists have warned that the sharp drop in immigrants coming into the U.S., and Trump’s aggressive deportation policies, could have detrimental effects on the country’s economy.
The Economic Policy Institute wrote in July that Trump’s deportation efforts will reduce jobs for immigrants and U.S.-born workers alike, as deportations will “[threaten] the ability of employers to generate revenue and pay for business expenses like rent, machinery, and even the labor of any remaining workers.”
Time Magazine
August 13, 2025
The ITIN has also been used as a way for immigrants to show they are abiding by the law as they wait for Congress to pass an immigration reform bill, said Daniel Costa, the director of Immigration Law and Policy and the Economic Policy Institute.
“I think this is because the immigration reform bills that have been proposed in Congress and included a legalization program for unauthorized immigrants have often included provisions requiring undocumented immigrants to pay back taxes. If they have kept up with paying their taxes and a legalization passes Congress, then they’ll already have met that requirement,” he said. He added, however, that Congress hasn’t taken a meaningful step in that direction since 2013.
Houston Chronicle
August 13, 2025
“Today’s jobs report is what entering a recession looks like,” wrote Josh Bivens, chief economist at the labor-oriented Economic Policy Institute, on Friday. “Could we pull up? Sure. But if we look back and end up dating an official recession that starts 3-6 months from now, this is what it would look like today — rapid softening/deterioration in the labor market.”
LA Times
August 13, 2025
We’re joined today by VALERIE WILSON — labor economist at the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute, where she heads up the organization’s Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy — to discuss just some of those reasons.
“I think this particular firing has raised alarm bells with so many people because of how important, how essential, those monthly jobs numbers are in this country,” Wilson explains today. “There’s a lot of visibility around these numbers and statistics. And we know that a lot of decision-makers rely on those numbers: the Federal Reserve, state and local governments, policymakers, businesses.” Moreover, she tells me, “the fact that this seems to be a politicized firing because the President simply didn’t like what the report was saying, is especially troubling to people who rely on the accuracy of those numbers to make important decisions.”
Pacifica Radio
August 13, 2025