The Economic Policy Institute reports the average annual cost of infant care in Massachusetts is $26,709.
The Gardner News (Massachusetts)
July 28, 2026
Nationally, 14 million workers make less than $15 per hour and 20 million workers make less than $16, including overtime, tips and commissions, according to the Economic Policy Institute’s Low Wage Workforce Tracker.
PennLive
July 28, 2026
By the mid-1990s, however, two economists at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI president Larry Mishel and Jared Bernstein, who went on to become chair of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers under Joe Biden) documented that around 1980, productivity continued its merry ascent while wages began lagging farther and farther behind.
American Prospect
July 28, 2026
A separate analysis by the Economic Policy Institute also found the hourly gap increasing, from 18% in 2024 to 18.6% in 2025.
Forbes
July 28, 2026
REPORTER: The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission voted on Tuesday to rescind the requirement that private employers collect demographic data. Can you talk about that?
VALERIE WILSON: Yeah, this is really a reversal of 60 years of the EEOC’s history and mission in enforcing anti-discrimination law, specifically anti-discrimination in employment law in this country. The big news is about the EE01 form, which is required by private employers with 100 or more employees and federal contractors with 50 or more employees.
But they actually voted to rescind all of the data collection. So that would also include employment data from state and local government, as well as elementary and secondary public schools and local labor unions. So it’s not just the EE01, they voted to rescind all of the data collection efforts that, again, have been in place for 60 years in order to support their role in enforcing Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, national origin, and a number of other protected classes.
WORT-FM (Labor Radio, Madison WI)
July 26, 2026
A new report from the Economic Policy Institute finds that rebuilding union power would significantly reduce racial wage gaps while strengthening our economy and our democracy. Communities with higher union membership invest more in public education, are more likely to expand access to health care and provide stronger unemployment protections when people lose their jobs.
Black Press USA
July 26, 2026
By the numbers: About 16.5 million U.S. workers were represented by unions in 2025, the highest number in 16 years, according to an Economic Policy Institute analysis of federal data.
- That amounts to just 11.2% of workers, but the rate varies drastically by industry and job.
- About 36% of education, training, and library employees are unionized. Just 4.4% of workers in computer occupations are represented by unions.
Axios
July 26, 2026
An economic theory was sold to us that people adopted that dramatically increased the power of capital, decreased the power of labor, and shifted this income share. I should just note that, wearing my economist hat, there are lots of reasons income shares can change. One is productivity, for example, but in the case of this period, actually worker productivity kept going up. Just more and more of that productivity was captured by the shareholders and owners of capital and not captured in workers’ wages. The Economic Policy Institute has done some great work on this.
Current Affairs
July 26, 2026
In an interview with The National News Desk on Friday, Josh Bivens, Chief Economist with the Economic Policy Institute, said,
I think what today’s numbers tell us is that so far, we still have pretty low unemployment. And we have a weird mixture of very low hiring, but very low layoffs. And it’s the layoffs which would trigger it increase in unemployment insurance applications. Those remain low.
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“I would say I’m going to bet inflation over this whole year is going to look closer to like the 3.5% range, which is a notable jump up and which will erase a lot of real income gains for a lot of Americans,” Bivens said.
Sinclair Broadcast Group
July 26, 2026