“If you don’t have the ability to track or try to prove or enforce non-discrimination laws, that’s going to be worse,” said Elise Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a left-leaning think tank. “Those [cuts] are hugely detrimental. They’re going in the wrong direction.”
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Wage gaps across the country have decreased between men and women of all races, according to data from the Economic Policy Institute. In 2024, women were paid 18 percent less on average than men, controlling for all factors.
19th News
March 26, 2025
Research from the Economic Policy Institute shows that cutting Medicaid to fund tax breaks would have a disproportionately negative impact on low- and middle-income individuals. Unlike the wealthy, who tend to save tax windfalls, Medicaid recipients immediately spend money on necessary goods and services, stimulating local economies.
The Fayetteville Observer
March 26, 2025
If the state’s child labor laws are changed, the risk is that young workers will have fewer protections and will have a harder time saying no to employers, said Nina Mast, an analyst with the Economic Policy Institute. “The teens who will be most harmed by this bill are low-income young people or those without documented status who are compelled by their situation to work,” Mast said.
Miami Herald
March 25, 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
March 25, 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
March 25, 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
March 25, 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
March 25, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute, Indiana ranks 18th in the nation for the most expensive infant care at $12,612 per year or $1,051 per month. Child care for a 4-year-old costs $9,557 per year or $796 per month.
The Journal Gazette
March 24, 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 24, 2025
Sanders: “CEOs now make 300 times more than their average worker.”
We rated a similar 2023 Sanders statement Mostly True.
The Economic Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C., liberal think tank, found that a 2023 measurement of CEO wages versus average workers’ wages showed a 290-to-1 ratio. That was smaller than previous years’ estimates of 344-to-1 in 2022 and 399-to-1 in 2021. (Sanders has updated his talking point.)
Politifact
March 24, 2025