Low-income households have been hit particularly bad. Real wages for low-wage workers fell in 2025 after years of growing, an Economic Policy Institute analysis found, which will have “an impact on the overall economy,” said Elise Gould, an EPI senior economist.
Bloomberg
March 6, 2026
Small companies — which already qualify for reduced fines — have been granted even larger breaks under the Trump administration, according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute.
In July, the Labor Department changed its policies to allow companies with 25 or fewer employees to receive automatic penalty reductions of 70 percent, and to allow reductions for companies without a history of violations or for those that took immediate steps to remedy an unsafe situation.
Texas Public Radio
March 5, 2026
chief executive pay spiked by 1,094%, according to the Economic Policy Institute-which means the average CEO earns 281 times the…[paywall].
Fast Company
March 5, 2026
In fact, the Economic Policy Institute reported in 2024 that teachers were being paid about 73 cents for every dollar paid to a professional working in another field with an equivalent degree.
Parenting Patch
March 5, 2026
These are individuals who’ve reached retirement age and can’t retire (no matter how much they want to). Financial insecurities restrict their ability to leave the labor market even when facing serious health issues or adverse working conditions. An Economic Policy Institute study (2023) found that significant shares of older workers aged 50–70 experience difficult working conditions.
Psychology Today
March 2, 2026
Economic Policy Institute economic analyst Nina Mast, whose research focuses on child labor standards, disagreed that the reporting system was overly burdensome to employers.
“The fact that the (Youth Employment System) required only employers of five or more minors to register was a flaw of the system, but the solution is not to get rid of the system entirely – it’s to improve it by requiring all employers to register employment of minors, regardless of how many minors they employ,” Mast said in an email.
Indy Star
March 2, 2026
According to Daniel Costa , an immigration and employment lawyer and expert at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), Trump dedicated relatively little time to immigration in his speech, focusing more on the economy and the November elections.
However, he noted that the president again portrayed immigrants as criminals , despite various studies showing that crime rates among immigrants are generally lower than among U.S. citizens.
Costa also criticized the president for not mentioning recent allegations of abuse during immigration enforcement operations or the economic impact of mass deportations.
La Opinion
March 2, 2026
Features interview with Daniel Costa.
Noticias con Rosana Romero
March 2, 2026