According to the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank focused on economic issues, the average cost of childcare in the state of California was nearly $22,000 per year. In states with a lower cost of living such as Alabama, it was nearly $8,000.
Al Jazeera
April 13, 2026
Other researchers were even more blunt in their assessments. A report by Economic Policy Institute found that most tipped workers wouldn’t see anywhere close to four figures.
“Most workers, including a large portion of tipped workers, will not benefit from this policy whatsoever,” left-leaning think tank concluded.
Money Magazine
April 13, 2026
The Economic Policy Institute has published an excellent report detailing how community benefits agreements can transform manufacturing jobs in the South from extractive, low-wage jobs into high-wage jobs that invest in the workforce.
The Pitch from Civic Ventures
April 13, 2026
But Phelps cited state statistics showing that 90,000 Louisiana workers earned $7.25 per hour or less in 2025.
Jan Moller of Invest in Louisiana said one in five workers would have received raises through Phelps’ bill directly or indirectly, quoting data from the Economic Policy Institute.
“People in Louisiana deserve a raise so life can be more affordable,” he said.
Shreveport Times
April 13, 2026
Last month, average hourly wage growth slowed to 3.5%, Bureau of Labor Statistics data showed.
“We’ll definitely see elevated prices eating away at people’s paychecks,” Elise Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, told CNN.
CNN Business
April 13, 2026
A recent study by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a nonpartisan think tank, estimated that, collectively, these policies will transfer between $4.4 and $5.4 billion a year from farmworkers to their employers. The United Farm Workers and other advocacy groups have sued, arguing that the pay cuts illegally penalize the few farmworkers who are U.S. citizens and work alongside H-2A workers.
Public News Service
April 13, 2026
A recent report by the Economic Policy Institute shows that not all paid family and medical leave programs are created equal. Arkansas is much like its Southern neighbors when it comes to its medical leave strategy – they’ve taken the voluntary paid leave insurance route. The state legislature passed a law in 2023 – Act 84 allows certain insurers to offer family leave insurance.
KUAF Public Radio (Arkansas)
April 13, 2026
Politico Morning Money
April 13, 2026
I also interviewed Heidi Shierholz, president of the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank in Washington. Shierholz said the “absolute scale of crushing unions” under Trump is “on a whole different scale from what we saw under Reagan. Trump is saying it’s absolutely open season on union folks. He took an absolute chainsaw to the federal workforce. He’s giving the green light to the private sector and local government to do the same.”
Steven Greenhouse Substack
April 13, 2026
“You can’t start rounding up and deporting people, and terrorizing, and getting people to self-deport, when they make up about 20% of the workforce without expecting major negative impacts on the economy,” said Daniel Costa, director of immigration law and policy research at the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington-based think tank.
Meat and poultry processing employs about 560,000 workers nationwide, with a combined payroll of $30 billion, underscoring how deeply local economies depend on the industry, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Investigate Midwest
April 13, 2026