A report from the Economic Policy Institute backs up Sanders’ claim, showing that while productivity has jumped 86.5% since 1979, hourly pay has only grown by 31.7%. The report blames policy decisions that have weakened unions and shifted wealth away from workers.
Benzinga (via Yahoo! Finance)
May 27, 2025
A key item in the bill is a roadmap to extend the tax cuts included in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Charlotte Observer
May 27, 2025
High cost of living. The overall cost of living in Delaware County is higher than any other county in the state. According to the Economic Policy Institute, the cost of living for a two-parent, two-child family is $115,383 per year, or $9,615 per month.
Investopedia
May 27, 2025
The so-called populist tax measures have garnered headlines and won praise from Republican lawmakers, as well as unions representing police and firefighters. And lawmakers in 19 states from Massachusetts to Mississippi have proposed their own “no tax on overtime” bills this year, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
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In the end, exempting overtime from taxes “is not a real pro-worker policy,” write EPI’s David Cooper and Nina Mast. “Instead, it is a giveaway to businesses that would create new inequities in the tax code while expanding employer power and draining public budgets of resources for all the things — schools, infrastructure, safety, health — that workers, their families, and their communities actually need to thrive.”
Capital & Main
May 27, 2025
Construction is always a major driver of economic growth, with every dollar invested leading to another three dollars recycled back to the economy. According to the Economic Policy Institute, every 100 construction jobs results in an overall multiplier of 2.26 additional jobs. That is certainly a sound investment in resources.
Trumbull Times
May 27, 2025
Davis estimates, as the bill is currently written, it would facilitate $2.2 billion in capital gains tax avoidance over the next decade.
That’s why Hilary Wething, an economist at the liberal-leaning Economic Policy Institute, calls this voucher plan “a tax shelter to the wealthy.”
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In the case of the federal proposal, “these are wealthy families who already made the choice to attend a private school,” says Wething of the Economic Policy Institute, “and now we’re just subsidizing their choice.”
NPR
May 27, 2025
Many states with conservative leadership, hopping in on the DOGE zeitgeist, have been attempting to copy the Trump administration’s extreme agency-gutting playbook. State-level Department of Government Efficiency-inspired entities have cropped up in 26 states, according to an April report from the Economic Policy Institute.
The Lever
May 27, 2025
If unions do see increased activity this summer, they’re likely to see vast swaths of support from the American people. The Economic Policy Institute notes that according to new American National Election Studies data, “Americans feel more positively toward labor unions and more negatively toward big business than any time since ANES began asking the question in 1964.”
The Pitch from Civic Ventures
May 27, 2025
The left-leaning Economic Policy Institute noted that Colorado’s union density of 7.7% is closer to the 6.2% average for right-to-work states than the 15.8% in non-right-to-work states. In Minnesota, which does not have a right-to-work law, 14.2% of workers are union members.
Minnesota Reformer
May 27, 2025
This proposed tax incentive will “expand the use of tipped work — a system rife with discrimination and worker abuse — potentially leading to consumers being asked to tip on virtually every purchase,” according to an Economic Policy Institute report.
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This measure also could undermine efforts to raise the federal minimum wage, which has stood at $7.25 an hour since 2009, the Economic Policy Institute said.
“Not taxing tips could further undercut efforts to raise compensation for rideshare, delivery, and other gig/app-based workers who receive tips,” the nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank said in its report.
The Washington Post
May 27, 2025