Graphic uses EPI’s child care cost data.
The Guardian
March 24, 2025
Statewide, as many as 44,000 workers are employed by the federal government, representing about 1 out of every 20 jobs, according to the nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute. Among states and the nation’s capital, New Mexico has the fourth-highest percentage of federal workers making up its workforce.
Organ Mountain News
March 24, 2025
Jeff Faux was the founding president of the Economic Policy Institute. His books include The Servant Economy.
The Nation
March 24, 2025
Child Care in Maryland is expensive and hard to find. A new report by the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal think tank, ranks Maryland as the eleventh most expensive state for child care.
WYPR
March 24, 2025
Almost 90,000 federal employees live in Illinois, according to estimates by the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute.
Chicago Tribune
March 24, 2025
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