The Rutgers report cites a recent study from the Economic Policy Institute that found state and federal authorities in the U.S. recovered $1.5 billion in unpaid wages between 2021 and 2023.
News from the States
March 11, 2025
California has the fourth-highest infant childcare costs in the U.S., an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute found.
Average infant child care costs in California total almost $22,000 a year, ranking behind Washington, D.C., Massachusetts and Minnesota.
EdSource
March 11, 2025
The potential new pressures on Americans’ wallets come as inflation has been squeezing all but the wealthiest Americans for years now. The added costs of these new tariffs – estimated to be about $626 per person, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute – are even more bad news for the roughly half of U.S. households who already carry a credit-card balance.
MarketWatch
March 11, 2025
Places identified in Destination: Retirement 2025 articles were selected from a list of U.S. counties that were ranked according to factors which are most important to retirees: cost of living, as well as access to travel, entertainment, and health care based on publicly available data sources including the U.S. Census Bureau, the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), and The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). More details about each data set, below.
Investopedia
March 11, 2025
CEO compensation has increased 1,085% since 1978, compared to a 24% increase in average employee pay, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Fortune
March 11, 2025
“If things continue on the way that they’re going, if the president continues to make all these unforced economic policy errors, it’s quite likely that we could have a recession this year,” said Adam Hersh, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute.
Hearst TV
March 11, 2025
This isn’t to say tariffs are a panacea. The Cato Institute warns of a 0.2 percent GDP hit, and Walmart’s shelves won’t thank us. But the free-trade gospel has its own sins — decades of outsourcing that gutted five million manufacturing jobs since 2000, per the Economic Policy Institute, while enriching a coastal elite sipping $6 lattes.
American Spectator
March 10, 2025
The Economic Policy Institute says American households will bear most of the burden of tariffs in the form of higher prices on imported goods and for domestic goods that compete with imports.
Filipino Chronicle
March 10, 2025
..and prompt a 0.5% drag on economic growth, according to the Economic Policy Institute. [paywall].
Buffalo News
March 10, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute, approximately 43,153 federal workers live in the state. The data is based on the 2023 American Community Survey. The analysis rescales published ACS counts and margins of error so that the values are consistent with the January 2025 BLS Current Employment Situation federal government employment estimate of 3,024,000.
The State
March 10, 2025