Arizona Republic
August 31, 2026
Over $1.5 billion. That is how much in stolen wages was recovered between 2021 and 2023 through federal, state and local enforcement, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Forbes
August 31, 2026
Teachers across the United States continued to earn significantly less than similarly educated workers in other professions in 2025, with the pay gap higher than 25 percent in half the country, according to a new report.
The report, released by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), found that the nationwide teacher pay penalty stood at an estimated 25.2 percent in 2025, meaning teachers earned about a quarter less than comparable college graduates in other professions.
Newsweek
August 31, 2026
A new study by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a research center and think tank that regularly collaborates with unions, works with the figure of $268.9 billion, the amount that the Institute for Policy Studies projects the Trump administration plans to spend on deportations during its second term.
In addition, the EPI offers a new resource, the ‘ deportation cost calculator ‘ which allows users to calculate the amount of money each taxpayer will allocate to Trump’s objectives.
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“The Trump administration’s immigration policy is not only inhumane, but it also represents a massive waste of public resources. Every dollar spent on mass deportations is a dollar not invested in crucial projects like education, healthcare, and affordable housing,” said Heidi Shierholz, president of EPI.
N+ Univision
August 24, 2026
Features interview with Heidi Shierholz.
The Economic Policy Institute estimates that workers lose more than $50 billion a year to wage theft. New York City is cracking down on the crime and other abuses of low-income workers.
CBS Saturday Morning
August 24, 2026
“We know that the top 10% have about 50% of overall income,” said Josh Bivens, chief economist for the Economic Policy Institute.
Newsday
August 24, 2026
Until now, the economic cost of deportations has been hidden. But last week, the University of Oregon Labor Education and Research Center, where I work, released a new online tool in partnership with the Economic Policy Institute letting anyone look up how much taxpayers in their town, county or state are paying for deportations.
Anyone who doesn’t believe these numbers is free to look them up on our Cost of Deportations Calculator. All the data is public, how the calculations are made is completely transparent and you can download all the numbers for yourself and come to your own conclusions.
Look Out Eugene Springfield
August 24, 2026
The change in the tone of the political discourse coincides with statistics across the board showing that Black communities have been disproportionately negatively impacted under the second Trump Administration. For example, Black Oregonians experienced unemployment at rates twice as high as their white counterparts (8.8% compared to 4.4%) in the second quarter of 2026, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Street Roots
August 24, 2026
“Bessent is certainly right that the U.S. economy isn’t producing many jobs. Hiring is extraordinarily weak—hiring rates are where they were in 2011, in the aftermath of the great recession,” Heidi Shierholz, president of the Economic Policy Institute, told Newsweek. “But the idea that weak job growth is somehow okay economically if it is the result of deportations is deeply wrong.
“Deporting immigrants does not make U.S.-born workers better off. That is not how the economy works. Deportations don’t just affect those being deported, they ripple through the entire economy.”
Shierholz said that when there are fewer immigrant roofers and framers, fewer homes are built, meaning less work for U.S.-born electricians and plumbers.
Newsweek
August 24, 2026