Cites EPI’s minimum wage tracker.
Channel 3000
February 18, 2025
As the Trump administration and congressional Republicans pursue trillions of dollars in new tax giveaways for wealthy individuals and corporations, economists and pollsters this week are warning about how devastating the GOP’s plan would be for small businesses and working families.
There Will Be Pain is the matter-of-fact title of a Thursday report from Josh Bivens, chief economist at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). It details how extending the expiring provisions from the tax law that Republican lawmakers passed and Trump signed in 2017 “will have painful trade-offs for the U.S. economy and most Americans.”
Common Dreams
February 18, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute, the vast majority of domestic workers in the U.S. are older women, 50% of whom are Black, Hispanic or Asian American, and are three times as likely to live in poverty as other workers.
Virginia Mercury
February 18, 2025
Even in 2023, women still earned almost 22% less than men earned, according to the Economic Policy Institute; and the COVID-19 pandemic hit women’s careers harder than men’s, as millions of women had to prioritize child care and helping their children home school over their jobs.
GO Banking Rates
February 18, 2025
Arizona State University ranked Ohio 35th in job growth last year. And when the Economic Policy Institute in 2023 looked at state unemployment rates by state since 2007 — the year the Great Recession struck — Ohio ranked near the bottom of states.
Ohio Capital Journal
February 18, 2025
Unions representing federal workers — along with the labor-allied Economic Policy Institute — have sued in an attempt to block Musk’s people from accessing all manner of Labor Department data, but a federal judge last week declined to block DOGE’s work.
Politico
February 18, 2025
Margaret Poydock, a senior policy analyst at the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank, told me that the NLRB firings not only “essentially paralyze” the agency from making decisions but also “destroy its independence.”
Mother Jones
February 18, 2025
Research conducted by the Economic Policy Institute demonstrates that there are more than 60 million workers who want and are ready to join a union. Union resources need to be allocated towards organizing those workers, not politics. It would more than quadruple union density and increase the pool of resources available to the labor movement.
Inequality.org
February 18, 2025
…recent data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Economic Policy Institute. Local advocates said that figure is too low. As…[paywall].
The Philadelphia Inquirer
February 18, 2025
…recipients of food stamps to have a job to get them. The Economic Policy Institute, a pro-union, nonprofit think tank in Washington,…[paywall].
NOLA.com
February 18, 2025