And lower-paid workers’ wages “are much higher than they were in 2019,” before the pandemic, said Elise Gould, senior economist at the left-leaning Economic Polic Institute. “They’re much better off than they were.”
But they’re no longer benefitting from the outsize earnings advances that helped them make more significant strides and many face growing financial strains.
USA Today
February 18, 2025
A collection of labor unions and a think tank—the Economic Policy Institute—filed a lawsuit and the motion for a temporary restraining order against the DOL and DOGE to prevent DOGE-affiliated personnel from gaining “unlawful” access to DOL systems or information.
Plan Adviser
February 18, 2025
As of the third quarter of 2024, white workers in Colorado had an unemployment rate of 3.4%, while Black workers’ rate was doubly high, at 6.8%, according to figures from the EPI, a nonpartisan think tank.
Axios Denver
February 18, 2025
“Their salaries are “a tiny sliver of total government spending—just around 5 percent to 6 percent,” Josh Bivens, chief economist at the Economic Policy Institute, told NPR.
Newsweek
February 18, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute, the CEO-to-worker compensation ratio was 290-to-1 in 2023. And CEO pay has exponentially grown by 1,085% since 1978 while the typical workers’ pay has risen only 24%.
Forbes
February 18, 2025
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