“In a political system beset by many stupid and destructive institutions, the statutory limit on federal debt might be the worst,” wrote Josh Bivens, chief economist at the Economic Policy Institute, also in 2021.
CNN
January 8, 2025
The Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank affiliated with some of the country’s largest labor organizations, says the U.S. needs — and benefits from — foreign labor.
The Biden administration’s migrant surge helped keep inflation from running even hotter, EPI said, adding that the effect on U.S. workers’ wages is “neutral” at worst and “slightly positive” at best.
The Washington Times
January 8, 2025
But for many families, it’s not enough. In Pennsylvania, the Economic Policy Institute estimated that the annual cost for infant care for a family is nearly $12,000 — more than in-state college tuition in 41 states.
Chalkbeat Philadelphia
January 8, 2025
Immigrants make up 56% of workers in the meatpacking industry and 28% of workers in the poultry industry, according to data from the Economic Policy Institute.
Ethnic Media Services
January 8, 2025
Ohio’s minimum wage is set to increase by 25 cents to $10.70 per hour in January, a move aimed at countering the effects of inflation.
The adjustment will directly or indirectly affect approximately 313,300 Ohioans, according to estimates from the Economic Policy Institute.
WSYX-TV (Ohio)
January 8, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute, about 3% of Arizonans earn the minimum wage.
FOX 10 Phoenix
January 8, 2025
Yet only a fraction of these wages are ever recovered. A 2021 study from the Economic Policy Institute found that only $3.24 billion in stolen wages were recovered from 2017 to 2020 through Department of Labor investigations, state agencies, or class action lawsuits. Of the small portion of recovered stolen wages, an even tinier amount is recovered by the federal government through the Department of Labor.
Popular Information
January 8, 2025
Growing awareness about inequality has not led to much progress in narrowing it. Even with some headway being made since the pandemic, annual earnings for the bottom 90% grew just 44% between 1979 and 2023, while earnings for the top 1% increased by 182%, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank.
MarketWatch
January 8, 2025
During Trump’s first term, the NLRB issued several decisions that weakened worker protections under federal labor law, according to a report from the pro-labor nonprofit Economic Policy Institute.
Sacramento Bee
January 8, 2025
Those delays can weaken union efforts, said Margaret Poydock, a senior researcher at the Economic Policy Institute. “With turnover, it diminishes worker solidarity over time,” said Poydock. Federal labor law allows unionized workers without a contract to vote to decertify an election after one year.
Louisiana Illuminator
January 8, 2025