Maybe investors were as unimpressed with the top-line economic numbers from the jobs report as EPI senior economist Elise Gould was. Gould took to Bluesky to highlight that despite the 172,000 jobs added in the month, nominal wage growth “continued to decelerate, further exacerbating affordability as prices rise.” Gould highlighted that since President Donald Trump took office in January 2025, the manufacturing sector has shed 68,000 jobs, and the federal government has cut another 333,000 jobs.
According to the Economic Policy Institute, the top 1 percent captured 77.5 percent of the state’s income growth between 2009 and 2015. Yet alongside Florida’s newly minted deep-red status, there have still been internal calls for progressive reform.
On this episode of America’s Work Force Union Podcast, LaborLab founder Bob Funk breaks down a new report produced with the Economic Policy Institute on the scale and structure of the union avoidance industry — from the law firms that drag out contract negotiations for years to the healthcare systems spending millions on union busters while patients wait for beds.
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The Economic Policy Institute enumerates the spread of union-busting even in…(paywall).
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.”
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.
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].
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].
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.