Over 60 percent of low-wage workers lacked paid sick leave altogether as of 2022, according to the Economic Policy Institute. For Black and Latino workers, whom America has historically excluded from wealth creation, virtually all these problems were multiplied.
The New Republic
February 18, 2025
The legislation is endorsed by…Economic Policy Institute, and the National Women’s Law Center.
Financial Regulation News
February 14, 2025
The issue has also been taken up at the state level, with bills introduced in about 20 states, according to the think tank the Economic Policy Institute, a vocal opponent.
EPI contends few workers would benefit from removing taxes on tips because lower-income workers would not likely meet income thresholds needed to qualify. And it would create new avenues for tax avoidance that could deplete state and federal budgets.
Restaurant Business Magazine
February 14, 2025
…groups, according to an analysis of federal data by the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal think tank. Ben Zipperer, an EPI…[paywall].
CNN
February 14, 2025
Around 600,000 immigrants who work in the U.S. are H1-B visa holders, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
South Side Weekly
February 14, 2025
Cites EPI’s minimum wage tracker.
Channel 3000
February 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 13, 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 13, 2025