In a report released earlier this year, the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute found that expanding work requirements does not override the effects of economic ebbs and flows — the key factor in employment, particularly for low-income people who are likely to rely on SNAP.
“Stricter work requirements — and the burdensome paperwork that will need to be completed to apply for the benefits — will shut out deserving families needing food assistance and health care,” the report read.
The Washington Times
February 24, 2025
Of the 2.2 million domestic workers in the USA, a 2022 report from the Economic Policy Institute found that more than 9 in 10 are women.1 Black, Hispanic, Asian American, and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) are overrepresented in this industry (56.6%) despite making up just 36.7% of the workforce in other industries. Black domestic workers account for nearly 1 in 5 (19.3%) of these workers while Black nannies make up 8.3% of the workforce.
Parents.com
February 24, 2025
“If the ‘savings’ ever got large enough to matter macroeconomically, it will be because they have gouged deep into federal programs that provide vital help to vulnerable families, and these families will be unambiguously worse off no matter how the ‘savings’ get distributed,” L. Josh Bivens, chief economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank, wrote in an email to Investopedia.
Investopedia
February 24, 2025
To be sure, Title I provides funding to offset some of the wealth disparities, but the reality is that, even with additional resources, it’s often not enough to make up for local-level funding gaps. The Economic Policy Institute notes that, “while federal funding, by far the smallest source of revenue, is being deployed as intended (to reduce inequities), it inevitably falls short of compensating for a system grounded in highly inequitable local revenues as its principal source of funding.”
The Fulcrum
February 24, 2025
A 2017 review by a Stanford economist Martin Carnoy published by the Economic Policy Institute similarly found little evidence vouchers improve school outcomes. While there were some modest gains in graduation rates, they were outweighed by the risks to funding public school systems.
The Conversation
February 24, 2025
The Bulwark
February 24, 2025
The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) has analyzed the potential impact of the proposed Medicaid cuts, indicating that such reductions could significantly decrease incomes for the bottom 40 percent of earners. The EPI’s report suggests that the cuts would disproportionately affect low-income households, exacerbating existing economic disparities.
Newsweek
February 24, 2025
Ben Zipperer of the Economic Policy Institute shared a tool for calculating how many federal workers are in a given state, county, town or congressional district — there are more than 10,000 just in my hometown of New Orleans, more than 2% of the workforce.
In These Times
February 24, 2025
Economists use an employment multiplier to account for indirect jobs that depend on a primary job, and the independent Economic Policy Institute used data from the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics to calculate an employment multiplier of 5.37 for oil and gas workers. That would mean the industry is responsible for 37,710 direct and indirect oil and gas jobs in New Mexico — roughly a third of what is written in the legislative memorial.
Capital & Main
February 24, 2025
An Economic Policy Institute study published last year found that RTW states “have lower unionization rates, wages, and benefits compared with non-RTW states.”
Common Dreams
February 24, 2025