According to the Economic Policy Institute, women were paid an average of 21.8% less than men in 2023. To make matters worse, a 2024 study conducted by the TIAA Institute and Ipsos found that, on average, women retire two years earlier, live three years longer and retire with 30% less income than men.
Kiplinger
May 5, 2025
Adam Hersh from the Economic Policy Institute said, “My biggest concern about this downturn in economic growth is that the Trump administration doesn’t seem to have policies in place that are going to counteract the slowdown in economic growth.”
This decline in GDP reverses the 2.4% gain seen in the previous quarter. However, the White House remains optimistic, pointing to new investments as evidence of an “economic boom.”
Hearst TV
May 5, 2025
The average cost of child care is $1,000 per month in Montana, Tennessee, Florida and other states and can run even more in other states, including Ohio ($1,400 per month), Maryland ($1,600 per month) and California ($1,800), according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Fairfield Sun Times
May 5, 2025
Today, I’ll lay out some of the most egregious actions taken by the Trump regime in the first 100 days to attack unions and working people in both the public and private sectors. Much of this is based on indispensable research by the Economic Policy Institute and its just released 100 Days, 100 Ways Trump Hurt Workers. (For more great reports like this, you can subscribe to EPI here.)
Michael Podhorzer Substack
May 5, 2025
Americans who work 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year, at the federal minimum wage no longer make enough money to keep themselves out of poverty.
For workers in the 20 states that have not passed their own higher minimum wage, working full-time at $7.25 brings in $15,080 per year, short of the poverty line of $15,650 for a single-person household, according to a new report by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI).
Popular Information
May 5, 2025
The Department of Health and Human Services set the federal poverty threshold at $15,650 for a single-person household, meaning that in these 21 states, which are concentrated in the South, millions of full-time workers are earning below the poverty line. One in five workers with just one job in those states lives in poverty, according to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI).
Latin Times
May 5, 2025
The pro-union Economic Policy Institute says the Trump administration has shut down 11 OSHA offices in states with higher workplace fatality rates. And the administration has effectively gotten rid of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, which conducts workplace safety research that’s used by OSHA in policymaking, EPI’s overview shows.
Wis Business
May 5, 2025
We are among the most expensive states for child care, according to Visual Capitalist. Child care is considered affordable if it costs no more than 7% of a family’s income. According to the Economic Policy Institute, every family earning their area’s median income pays a bigger percentage than that.
Stamford Advocate
May 5, 2025
“Anyone that Trump appoints should be expected to rule for employers over workers,” said Margaret Poydock, a senior policy analyst at the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank. “That completely destroys the independence of the agency, an agency that is meant to protect workers’ organizing and bargaining rights.”
The fight over the National Labor Relations Board, which raises fundamental questions about executive power, has received its fair share of media coverage. Other changes are easier to miss. In March, Trump rescinded an executive order issued by President Joe Biden that raised the minimum wage for federal contractors to $15 an hour and was indexed to inflation, with the current minimum set at $17.75. The Economic Policy Institute estimated that the move had raised the wages for nearly 400,000 workers — a gain that Trump has now moved to erase.
Capital & Main
May 5, 2025
The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) last week compiled a list of “100 ways Trump has hurt workers in his first 100 days,” which includes terminating grants to fight forced and child labor, nominating Crystal Casey to be general counsel at the National Labor Relations Board, and leaving the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service with what one employee recently toldCommon Dreams is “a very skeletal crew.”
Common Dreams
May 5, 2025