Multiple agencies, even those unaffected by the order, such as the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), American Postal Workers Union (APWU), Economic Policy Institute (EPI), and American Federation of Musicians (AFM), have condemned the dissolution of collective bargaining for federal workers.
HR Digest
April 1, 2025
Proceedings in the lawsuit, brought by plaintiffs including the AFL-CIO and member unions as well as the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank, will play out over the coming weeks in one of many challenges to DOGE’s access to federal government databases.
HR Dive
April 1, 2025
According to SmartAsset, if you want to make it into the top 1% nationwide, you’ll need to earn $787,712 a year. Want to know what that breaks down to? A monthly income of $65,643. And if you’re going by the Economic Policy Institute’s numbers, you’d need even more—$819,324 a year, or $68,277 a month.
Benzinga (via Yahoo! Finance)
April 1, 2025
In Nebraska, infant care costs more than the average rent, a report by the Economic Policy Institute says.
Child care is one of the biggest expenses families face – it’s also more costly than in-state tuition for a public college in 38 states, including Nebraska, according to the report, which uses state-level data from the Department of Labor and Child Care Aware of America to examine the cost of child care across the country.
“Child care is unaffordable for working families everywhere in the country, and it’s even more unattainable for minimum wage workers and the very workers that administer child care,” Katherine deCourcy, a research assistant for the Economic Policy Institute, said in a news release.
Des Moines Register
April 1, 2025
Although we think of most minimum wage workers as young and without family responsibilities, according to the Economic Policy Institute, “tipped workers are also more likely to be single parents — especially women workers.”
Boulder Daily Camera
April 1, 2025
The lowest-paid workers in the economy saw the fastest wage growth by far over the last five years according to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute.
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Gould said when things reopened and employers started hiring again, “Workers had a moment to pause. We had, one time in history, better unemployment insurance programs and they could be a little bit choosier.” That meant employers had to pay more.
Marketplace
April 1, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute, in September 2024, there were 200,000 bus drivers nationwide. That’s down about 12% compared to September 2019. The report from the organization shows the key issue that drives the shortage is because of low pay.
ABC 15 (Arizona)
April 1, 2025
Professor Katz argued that slower growth in wages for upper-middle-class workers could simply reflect a discount that these workers effectively accepted in return for being able to work from home. Data from the liberal Economic Policy Institute shows that wages for workers in the 70th and 80th percentiles of the income distribution have grown more slowly than those of any other group since 2019.
New York Times
April 1, 2025
Other reasons for tariffs include national security concerns, bolstering key points in supply chains and countering monopolization of critical imports, Economic Policy Institute economists Adam Hersh and Josh Bivens have said, per CNN.
Deseret News
April 1, 2025