But as government school-voucher programs have expanded in other states, that funding has often come at the expense of public education, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank focused on the effects of policies on low- and middle-income families.
Idaho Statesman
May 19, 2025
Experts also have cautioned against taking the list — and Trump’s statements — at face value.
“There’s no guarantee that any of the investments that are announced actually come to fruition,” Adam Hersh, a senior economist at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, told us in a phone interview.
Various companies — or governments, for that matter — can announce that they plan to spend money building in the U.S., but any number of things could happen to halt a planned project before it’s actually built.
As economists, “we wouldn’t count them until they’re actually in the ground,” Hersh said of evaluating the economic impact of the listed projects. “Until they actually happen, it’s just a lot of hot air.”
FactCheck.org
May 19, 2025
As Maryland continues to address racial inequities, Moore’s forthcoming initiative to eliminate the racial wage gap marks a significant policy move. According to the Economic Policy Institute, as of 2024, Black workers in the U.S. earn on average 76 cents for every dollar earned by white workers — a gap that persists across industries and education levels.
New York Carib News
May 19, 2025
“It’s going to hit industries hard,” said Daniel Costa, director of Immigration Law and Policy Research at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. Costa said the push to remove immigrants goes beyond targeting those who entered the U.S. illegally.
It’s also affecting people who entered the U.S. legally but their visas have expired or their protected status has been revoked. As the Trump administration boosts spending to tighten the southern border and support more deportations, Costa said the effort is focused on the wrong end. Instead, he said, the administration should be hiring more judges to clear the backlog of asylum claims and end the long delays when immigrants seek to become legal residents or naturalized citizens.
The U.S. doesn’t need to be pushing people out, Costa said. It needs more people coming in. “We’re facing a massive demographic challenge in the U.S.,” he said. As the U.S. population ages, immigrant workers are increasingly important. Since 2019, they have accounted for 88% of the nation’s labor force growth.
Charlotte Observer
May 19, 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 twenty-six states, according to an April report from the Economic Policy Institute.
Jacobin
May 19, 2025
“Americans deserve both meaningful federal protections and the ability of their states to lead in advancing safety, fairness, and accountability when AI systems cause harm,” concluded the coalition, which includes 350.org, the American Federation of Teachers, Center for Democracy & Technology, Economic Policy Institute, Free Press Action, Friends of the Earth U.S., Greenpeace USA, Groundwork Collaborative, National Nurses United, Public Citizen, Service Employees International Union, and more.
Common Dreams
May 19, 2025
The 141 signatories on the letter include academic institutions such as Cornell University and Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy and Technology, and advocacy groups such as the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Economic Policy Institute.
CNN
May 19, 2025
As data from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) show, White people are the largest racial demographic of Medicaid users in raw numbers, but Black and Latine people are proportionally more likely to rely on it for healthcare coverage.
Nonprofit Quarterly
May 19, 2025
The difficulty unions have in clearing that second bar—a hurdle unique to Colorado—explains in large part why the percentage of unionized Colorado workers is so low. Data from the Economic Policy Institute indicates that Colorado’s union density (7.7 percent in 2024) much more closely resembles that of right-to-work states (with an average of 6.2 percent in 2024) than non-right-to-work states (15.8 percent in 2024). Colorado is the only state with Democratic trifecta control of government to have such a law.
American Prospect
May 19, 2025
Mishel was the long-serving president of the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank that has been an invaluable source of data and analysis about …[paywall].
Paul Krugman Substack
May 19, 2025