For families or those with dependents, the cost is even higher. According to the Economic Policy Institute, a family of four would need more than $140,000 per year to afford a modest but comfortable lifestyle in the Miami metro area.
South Florida Media
June 30, 2025
In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Alvin Velazquez, a law professor at Indiana Maurer School of Law; Lynn Rhinehart, a Senior Fellow at the Economic Policy Institute; Gali Racabi, a law professor at Cornell Law School; and Seth Goldstein, a labor law attorney and partner at Goldstein and Singla PLLC to discuss the future of labor law.
Power at Work
June 30, 2025
The Economic Policy Institute has estimated that the Raise the Wage Act would increase incomes for 32 million Americans, including one-third of Black workers and one-quarter of all Latino workers.
National Restaurant News
June 30, 2025
Such shifts can have implications for the broader economy, given that immigrants across the board accounted for 18 percent of total U.S. economic output in 2023, or $2.1 trillion in 2024 dollars, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
The Washington Post
June 30, 2025
The answer is math. When a factory closes 100 jobs, it kills 844 total. That’s not a guess. That’s the Economic Policy Institute’s number for durable manufacturing.
The Nation
June 30, 2025
“A really strong economy was handed off to the Trump administration,” says Josh Bivens, chief economist at the labor-affiliated Economic Policy Institute, “and so far, it has mostly held.”
LA Times
June 30, 2025
The Republicans like to condemn lower-income people for accepting “handouts” or being dependent on the government. But according to a 2016 Economic Policy Institute study, if the federal minimum wage were raised from the current $7.25 an hour to $12, it would reduce people’s need for public assistance. It also would reduce spending on government assistance every year by $23 billion.
Huffington Post
June 30, 2025
Dave Kamper, Minnesota-based senior state policy strategist at the Economic Policy Institute, interacted with Hortman over the years and marveled at her ability to engage on a human level in the legislative world.
“How you make sure everyone’s feeling heard and everyone’s priorities are met, that’s a difficult thing to do,” Kamper acknowledged. “It requires time, it requires attention, it requires a genuine commitment to the well-being of the other folks. It can’t just be a transactional relationship.”
Public News Service
June 30, 2025
Taxes on tips have a big impact on underpaid workers. Nina Mast, an economic analyst with the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, has even likened tips to a modern tool of racist oppression in the South. “Tipped workers are more likely to be people of color, women, women of color, or single parents, and are disproportionately born outside of the U.S.,” she wrote in a paper published last June.
MarketWatch
June 30, 2025
Removing the provider tax provision threatens the very survival of the bill, because it had been expected to contribute significantly to Republican’s goal of slashing costs to fund tax cuts for the rich.
“There’s a lot of really bad stuff in there, but I don’t know that I’ve seen a bigger sticker price on anything else Byrded out yet,” said Samantha Sanders, director of government affairs and advocacy at the Economic Policy Institute.
The American Prospect
June 30, 2025