Lingo said 93% of workers represented by the union earn less than $39,000 a year. She contrasted that with an Economic Policy Institute estimate that a one-earner household with one child on the Lower Shore needs $67,000 to meet basic expenses.
Ocean City Today Dispatch (Maryland)
June 12, 2026
In any case, as Josh Bivens of the Economic Policy Institute points out, the deeper problems are slow income growth, rising inequality, and extreme wealth …[paywall].
Project Syndicate
June 12, 2026
Based on a tool provided by the Economic Policy Institute, those families could afford even the most expensive tuition for a single child in all but two …[paywall].
The Tennessean
June 12, 2026
According to the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute, Starbucks baristas in Buffalo have been negotiating a contract for 1,645 days, and Amazon warehouse workers in Staten Island have been at it for 1,532 days.
New Republic
June 12, 2026
The Economic Policy Institute enumerates the spread of union-busting even in…(paywall).
The Nation
June 12, 2026
An analysis published by Ben Zipperer, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, found that the price increases caused by the Iran war have been so large that they’ve wiped out any prior gains in real wages during Trump’s second term.
Zipperer also warned that “as long as the war continues, there is a heightened threat that price increases will spill over to the broader economy, triggering a more permanent increase in the cost of living and further reductions in real earnings.”
Common Dreams
June 12, 2026
Lingo said 93% of workers represented by the union earn less than $39,000 a year. She contrasted that with an Economic Policy Institute estimate that a one-earner household with one child on the Lower Shore needs $67,000 to meet basic expenses.
Ocean City Today Dispatch (Maryland)
June 12, 2026
Based on a tool provided by the Economic Policy Institute, those families could afford even the most expensive tuition for a single child in all but two …[paywall].
The Tennessean
June 12, 2026
In any case, as Josh Bivens of the Economic Policy Institute points out, the deeper problems are slow income growth, rising inequality, and extreme wealth …[paywall].
Project Syndicate
June 12, 2026
According to the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute, Starbucks baristas in Buffalo have been negotiating a contract for 1,645 days, and Amazon warehouse workers in Staten Island have been at it for 1,532 days.
New Republic
June 12, 2026