CHAKRABARTI: According to 2022 data from the Economic Policy Institute, the median income for Black workers is 21% less than the median income for white workers. Professor Smith-Bynum says Black parents also have to deal with the racial content their kids are exposed to online.
WBUR
January 21, 2025
According to figures by the Economic Policy Institute, the stock market posted an inflation-adjusted growth of 28.8% in 2024.
This was comfortably the strongest pre-transition market performance in decades, with the average being 6.5%.
Invezz
January 21, 2025
Orlando Sentinel
January 21, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute, wages for the top 1 percent of U.S. income earners skyrocketed nearly 182 percent from 1979 to 2023, compared to a growth of 43.7 percent for the bottom 90 percent. CEO pay growth in recent decades has similarly towered over that for the average worker, with top CEO compensation rising 1,085 percent from 1978 to 2023, compared with a 24 percent increase in pay for a typical worker.
Orlando Weekly
January 21, 2025
Some of the roles H-1B workers are hired to fill also involve less complicated jobs, like product testing, said Ronil Hira, an associate political science professor at Howard University and a research associate with the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. These roles don’t necessarily meet the visa program’s intended goal of outsourcing roles that require unique skills.
CBS Moneywatch
January 21, 2025
“The Department of Labor under Trump could review the rule, and they might not necessarily deem that this is something that they want to continue to pursue,” says Margaret Poydock, a senior analyst with the Economic Policy Institute. “So they will just not issue a final rule, and that will kind of be the end of that rulemaking.”
WAMC Northeast Public Radio
January 21, 2025
…efforts-and exceedingly common: a 2019 study conducted by the Economic Policy Institute found that employers are charged with violating…[paywall].
The New York Review of Books
January 21, 2025
For every $10,000 increase in student loan debt, the odds of D.C. homeownership decreased by 8%, Kyle K. Moore — an economist with the Economic Policy Institute’s program on race, ethnicity, and the economy — and another researcher, Eduard Nilaj, found in a 2023 report. Their work accounted for factors such as age, income and credit score.
NBC Washington
January 21, 2025
As of 2023, according to estimates by the nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute (EPI), foreign-born labor accounted for record-high 18.6% of the US workforce. That same year, according to EPI, the US labor force grew by 12.6% — a number that drops to just 0.5% when removing immigrants.
Yahoo Finance
January 21, 2025
Among the major changes in policy that workers could expect under the Trump administration, according to the Economic Policy Institute, are an end to proactive government support for the right to form a union, crackdowns on immigrants in the workplace, and a rollback of pro-worker laws and that gives employers more power
The Guardian
January 21, 2025