According to the Economic Policy Institute, the average cost for center-based infant care in the U.S. reached $12,350 annually in 2024, making these budget-friendly strategies essential.
GO Banking Rates
August 4, 2025
“If policymakers and the public can’t trust the data — or suspect the data are being manipulated — confidence collapses and reasonable economic decision-making becomes impossible,” Heidi Shierholz, the president of the center-left Economic Policy Institute and former chief economist of the Labor Department, told the Post. “It’s like trying to drive a car blindfolded.”
Politico Playbook
August 4, 2025
Educator salaries tend to be significantly lower than those of other professionals with comparable education and experience, according to a report by the Economic Policy Institute. As such, many teachers apply to work summer school for extra pay.
Berkeley Side
August 4, 2025
The FT notes that economists say wages are often more volatile for the lowest-paid employees, as they typically have less bargaining power in a weak jobs market.
“It takes a tighter labor market for them to have any leverage,” said Elise Gould, a labor market expert at the Economic Policy Institute.
PYMNTS
August 4, 2025
“The labor market is much weaker than originally reported the last two months. While payrolls grew 73k in July, May and June data were revised down a total of 258k to 19k and 14k, respectively,” wrote Economic Policy Institute economist Elise Gould.
New Republic
August 4, 2025
SoFi
August 4, 2025
This month, the Economic Policy Institute conducted its own analysis of the full-service restaurant industry in the nation’s capital based on publicly available data. It found “no evidence that increasing the tipped minimum wage has caused measurable harm to industry employment or business growth,” the EPI wrote in its report. “If anything, D.C.’s restaurant industry has done well relative to most jurisdictions over this period.”
The Washington Post
August 4, 2025
Over the past three months, U.S. job gains have averaged just 35,000.
“To me, today’s jobs report is what entering a recession looks like,” Josh Bivens, chief economist of the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, said in a statement.
USA Today
August 4, 2025
As Trump’s officials press ahead, economists have warned that deporting millions of immigrants from the US could have drastic consequences. The Economic Policy Institute estimated this month that 4 million deportations would result in the loss of 3.3 million jobs held by immigrants in the US and 2.6 million US-born employees, hitting industries including construction and childcare.
The Guardian
August 4, 2025
Firing a nonpartisan analyst for delivering bad news was “straight out of an autocratic playbook,” said Heidi Shierholz, former chief economist of the Labor Department and now the president of the Economic Policy Institute, a left-of-center think tank.
“If policymakers and the public can’t trust the data — or suspect the data are being manipulated — confidence collapses and reasonable economic decision-making becomes impossible. It’s like trying to drive a car blindfolded,” she said.
The Washington Post
August 4, 2025