Sen. Hawley and Sen. Weltch’s bill is not the only one to be introduced that would boost wages for workers with the lowest incomes. The Raise the Wage Act of 2023 was a more generous bill, as it would have increased the federal minimum wage to $17 an hour by 2028, which the Economic Policy Institute estimates would boost incomes for nearly 28 million workers, representing around 19 percent of the U.S. labor force.
El Diario
June 12, 2025
Nina Mast, an analyst with the Washington D.C.-based Economic Policy Institute, told DW that child labor is exploitative or oppressive labor by a minor or “any work that is excessive in the sense that it interferes with a child’s education or health or well-being.”
Deutsche Welle
June 12, 2025
Critics of state DOGEs argue that the work is mostly performative and designed to strengthen their governors while weakening agencies and legislatures, undermining government service in favor of the wealthy. In April, the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute said Republican states and governors see their DOGEs as a way of “demonstrating their loyalty to the Trump administration.”
“State policymaking over the past several decades shows that DOGE’s activities at both the federal and state levels are merely a rebranding of conservatives’ long-running project to enact a policy agenda that prioritizes business and the wealthy at the expense of working people,” EPI said at the time. “Efforts to dismantle government and suppress opposition to their agenda are a necessary first step in that project.”
Route Fifty
June 10, 2025
And the country will need more of those workers to fill the gap left by the loss of undocumented workers, according to Daniel Costa, director of immigration law and policy research at the Economic Policy Institute.
“We’re going to see a really big push by the employer community to replace a lot of these workers with temporary work visas, so programs like H-2A and H-2B,” he said.
Those visas are primarily used in agriculture, construction and hospitality.
Big picture, Costa said these raids could hurt the labor market. “Immigration enforcement does not help U.S. workers, it does not open up jobs. There’s no evidence that that happens.”
Marketplace
June 10, 2025
Article source:
- Economic Policy Institute. “Wage Stagnation in 9 Charts.“
Investopedia
June 9, 2025
Or consider OSHA — the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. According to the Economic Policy Institute, since its inception OSHA has saved an estimated 712,000 lives and workplace fatalities have gone down by almost two-thirds — even as the size of the American workforce has doubled. But the Republicans aim to put a stop to this.
Daily Hampshire Gazette
June 9, 2025
DOGE’s unprecedented access to Americans’ data “is alarming, made worse by the complete absence of meaningful oversight,” according to Ben Zipperer, a senior economist with the Economic Policy Institute. “That unrestrained access to data will likely worsen the problem of identity theft in the United States, which could cost working families tens of billions of dollars annually.”
The Independent
June 9, 2025
According to a report from the Economic Policy Institute, workers lose over $15 billion each year due to minimum wage violations alone — a burden that disproportionately affects immigrant and undocumented workers.
MoneyWise
June 9, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute, in 2023, more than one in five Black households experienced food insecurity, more than Hispanics and whites, and lack of food hit the lowest for African Americans in 2019.
South Florida Times
June 9, 2025
Research from the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank based in Washington, D.C., shows that voucher programs in Ohio result in majority Black school systems such as the Cleveland Metropolitan School District losing millions in education funding.
This impact of voucher programs disproportionately affects schools in predominantly Black communities across the U.S. with lower tax bases to fund public schools.
The Conversation
June 9, 2025