According to the Economic Policy Institute, the first minimum wage was part of the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act.
Maine Central Radio
March 24, 2025
The Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think-tank, developed a tool designed to predict how expected enrollment declines in public schools would reduce per-pupil funds in individual school districts across the country.
That tool doesn’t include BIE schools, but it indicates that if Todd County School District were to lose 5% of its students due to voucher programs, each of the remaining students would see a $592 decline in funding. The district did not respond to requests for comment about the order and its potential effects.
Hilary Wething, an EPI economist, said such declines can undermine the public school system more broadly.
“Public dollars allocated to education should go to boosting spending in public systems, not subsidizing private education,” Wething wrote in a recent paper.
The Daily Progress
March 24, 2025
Monique Morrissey, a senior economist with the Economic Policy Institute, recently joined WWL News Radio to discuss how the department could affect Social Security.
WWL News Radio (New Orleans)
March 24, 2025
For infants, the most costly age for care, the price of daily care in South Carolina averaged $11,512 for calendar year 2023, according to an analysis released earlier this month by the Economic Policy Institute . For 4-year-olds, it was $10,481.
“A typical family in South Carolina would have to spend 26.10% of its income on child care for an infant and a 4-year-old,” according to the report.
South Carolina Daily Gazette
March 24, 2025
Graphic uses EPI’s child care cost data.
The Guardian
March 24, 2025
Statewide, as many as 44,000 workers are employed by the federal government, representing about 1 out of every 20 jobs, according to the nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute. Among states and the nation’s capital, New Mexico has the fourth-highest percentage of federal workers making up its workforce.
Organ Mountain News
March 24, 2025
Jeff Faux was the founding president of the Economic Policy Institute. His books include The Servant Economy.
The Nation
March 24, 2025
Child Care in Maryland is expensive and hard to find. A new report by the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal think tank, ranks Maryland as the eleventh most expensive state for child care.
WYPR
March 24, 2025
Almost 90,000 federal employees live in Illinois, according to estimates by the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute.
Chicago Tribune
March 24, 2025
By the numbers: In San Antonio-area congressional districts, veterans make up a sizable share of civilian federal employment, per new data from the Economic Policy Institute.
- In Texas’ 23rd Congressional District, represented by Republican U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, about 7,500 veterans account for about 48% of the federal workforce.
Axios San Antonio
March 24, 2025