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
According to the Economic Policy Institute, the first minimum wage was part of the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act.
Maine Central Radio
March 24, 2025
Monique Morrissey, a senior economist with the Economic Policy Institute, recently joined WWL News Radio to discuss how the department could affect Social Security.
WWL News Radio (New Orleans)
March 24, 2025
Graphic uses EPI’s child care cost data.
The Guardian
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
Almost 90,000 federal employees live in Illinois, according to estimates by the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute.
Chicago Tribune
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
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
A separate analysis of Social Security wage data by the Economic Policy Institute found the top 1% of earners in 2023 had an average annual wage of $794,129.
News Nation Now
March 24, 2025