By the numbers: In San Antonio-area congressional districts, veterans make up a sizable share of civilian federal employment, per new data from the Economic Policy Institute.
- In Texas’ 23rd Congressional District, represented by Republican U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, about 7,500 veterans account for about 48% of the federal workforce.
Axios San Antonio
March 24, 2025
Infant care averaged $17,071 a year in the state, according to the recent analysis of government data by the Economic Policy Institute. It found the average tuition at a four-year public college in Ohio was $11,110. (The analysis is mostly based on 2023 and 2024 data.) This meant that it cost families nearly 54% more to have paid a provider to look after a baby than it would have cost to have sent a young adult to a post-secondary institution.
Signal Cleveland
March 24, 2025
And it’s hard to see how these ultra rich folks can be advocates for the economic interests of most Americans. While members of Trump’s government have become extremely wealthy, the standard of living for our middle class has continued to decline during the last four decades. American workers are now 81% more productive than they were 45 years ago, according to the Economic Policy Institute, yet their wages have grown by only 29%.
The Oklahoman
March 24, 2025
While the impacts of such a downturn can vary widely, typically lower-income people are hit the hardest, and existing disparities only widen, said Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute.
“Disproportionately, it tends to be those most historically disadvantaged workers that are batted around more in a bad labor market, and they experience much higher rates of unemployment,” she said. “We think about young people, who are also harmed in downturns — the last-hired, first-fired kind of phenomenon.”
CNN Business
March 24, 2025
“There’s been efforts, multiple efforts across the country, led by the National Restaurant Association, to essentially undo the will of the voters who have voted to pass higher statewide minimum wages,” Nina Mast, an economic analyst for the progressive-leaning Economic Policy Institute, told Orlando Weekly in a phone call.
Orlando Weekly
March 20, 2025
The Tarvers paid $630 a month to put their son in the infant room before they received assistance — about 70% of the average cost of child care in Texas, which is $892 a month, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
The Texas Tribune
March 20, 2025
“It’s easy to imagine businesses automatically adding ‘recommended gratuity’ to invoices with the expectation that many consumers won’t be willing to speak up in protest,” wrote experts at the Economic Policy Institute.
Fortune
March 20, 2025
A new report from the Economic Policy Institute shows that childcare for one infant now costs more than rent in 17 states and more than in-state college tuition in 38 states.
NPR 1A
March 20, 2025
According to research from the Economic Policy Institute, the program is the largest federal program for alleviating poverty, and cutbacks would increase hardships for already struggling families.
March 20, 2025