The money could prove impactful for the more than 9.7 million Native people in the US, who have historically faced hurdles to career advancement, including geographic barriers that may limit job opportunities for those living in rural areas like Alaska and Oklahoma, according to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). Native people also have fewer educational opportunities than other racial groups and are the least likely to complete college, the EPI reported.
As a result, Native populations typically have higher unemployment and lower average wages than other racial groups, the EPI found.
HR Brew
April 13, 2026
The first supposed end of globalization was the financial crisis of 2008. Then, in 2016, it was the Brexit referendum, which the Economic Policy Institute suggested could be “the end of globalization as we know it.”
The Washington Post
April 13, 2026
The loss of immigrant workers does not translate into jobs for U.S.-born workers, said Economic Policy Institute president Heidi Shierholz, adding that the Trump administration appears to be operating under an “absolutely false notion” that it does.
“If you deport a workforce of immigrant roofers and framers, fewer houses will be built, so U.S.-born electricians and plumbers also lose their jobs,” she said. “The impacts really ripple out.”
She also cited Economic Policy Institute research forecasting that if the administration succeeds in its goal of deporting 1 million immigrants a year, nearly 6 million jobs will be lost by the end of Trump’s term, including 2.6 million held by U.S.-born workers.
Travel Weekly
April 13, 2026
Mounting requirements, difficult schedules and stressful conditions add up to bus driver shortages across the nation, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Daily Commercial
April 13, 2026
About half of workers in the US aged 50 to 54 are involuntarily pushed out of long-term jobs before they expect to retire, according to the Urban Institute, a policy research nonprofit. The pandemic only intensified those pressures. Roughly 5.7 million workers over 55 lost their jobs in early 2020, and many have yet to return to stable work, according to the Economic Policy Institute, also a research organization.
The Guardian
April 13, 2026
Amazon.com (AMZN) and Starbucks (SBUX) are clear examples. Thousands of workers at these two low-wage 20 corporations have voted to unionize. But over the past four years, executives have deployed various stalling tactics to block contracts. At Lowe’s, executives have fired pro-union workers before organizing campaigns could even get off the ground.
This type of labor suppression is a major reason wages have not kept pace with productivity gains for the past 45 years. If they had, paychecks for typical workers would be roughly 40% greater, the Economic Policy Institute said.
MarketWatch
April 13, 2026
“The overtime tax deduction will cut federal revenue by tens of billions of dollars, and potentially cost states hundreds of millions, depending on how they define taxable income,” according to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) (5).
States can choose whether to follow federal tax cuts, including ‘no tax on overtime.’ For states that choose to adopt the federal policy, “the policy will substantially reduce funding for public services,” says the EPI.
MoneyWise
April 8, 2026
The union cited data from the Economic Policy Institute that identifies a “teacher pay penalty” — the wage gap between teacher salaries and salaries for their equally educated non-teaching peers. Washington’s teachers in 2024 had the 15th-highest pay penalty in the country, earning 28.1% less than those in other similarly-educated professions like nurses and accountants.
Tacoma News Tribune
April 8, 2026
Raising teacher pay is “necessary to improve educational outcomes and foster future economic stability of workers, their families, and communities across the U.S.,” according to a 2022 report by the Economic Policy Institute. Instead, Texas is paying for its failure to make this crucial investment.
Austin American-Statesman
April 8, 2026
Working families in Vermont are already saddled with some of the most expensive infant child care in the nation. A recent report from the Economic Policy Institute estimates that infant child care averages nearly $19,000 per year—well over $1,500 per month. This places Vermont 12th nationally regarding the cost of infant child care.
VT Digger
April 8, 2026