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We’ve been here before, and we know what comes next: White supremacy has always been used to usher in massive economic inequality
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Black women suffered large employment losses in 2025—particularly among college graduates and public-sector workers
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Failing to extend the enhanced ACA premium tax credits is an attack on working-class Black families and major metro areas
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Stronger collective bargaining laws will benefit all Virginians
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Six ways the Trump administration tried to erase MLK’s legacy in 2025
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Ending ACA tax credits would impose high costs on Black Americans in 10 major metro areas: Over 170,000 losing health insurance, $740 million more in annual premiums, and more than 200 preventable deaths each year
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Over 8.3 million workers will benefit from minimum wage increases on January 1: Nineteen states will raise their minimum wages. Here’s where.
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Trump is slashing safety nets for Native communities: This will widen disparities in poverty, food insecurity, and health care access
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The school bus driver shortage has improved slightly but continues to stress K–12 public education
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Racial and ethnic disparities in the United States: An interactive chartbook
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Assessing the strength of the labor market: Preliminary downward revisions do not necessarily signal a weaker 2024 labor market, but there are warning signs for 2025
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Hispanic workers have shown remarkable resilience in the labor market despite Trump destroying job growth
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What’s behind rising unemployment for Black workers?
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Next week’s 2024 Census data will give us the final snapshot of the economy’s health before Trump
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Financial disparities will deepen economic insecurity for Black and Hispanic households amid the 2025 slowdown
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EPI’s comments on DOL’s proposed rule on “Application of the Fair Labor Standards Act to Domestic Service”
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The last two recessions have hit low-income families of color hard: Trump’s economic agenda will expose millions to even more pain when the next recession strikes
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A tale of 10 cities: Metro areas signal what’s at stake for Black Americans under Trump’s anti-equity agenda
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Trump is making it easier for federal contractors to discriminate—and it will be underwritten by your tax dollars
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Disinvestment in the public sector undermines opportunities for Black women across the South: Trump cuts further threaten key services for working people across the nation
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Trump is making it easier for employers to discriminate. This stifles equity and hurts economic growth.
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States must safeguard language access for AAPI communities as Trump undermines federal protections
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How Trump’s erasure of environmental data is endangering communities of color
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Trump attacks on federal agencies have steep implications for Black workers
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Workers of color made historic gains over the last five years, but Trump’s anti-worker and anti-equity agenda threatens to reverse this progress
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Strong wage growth for low-wage workers bucks the historic trend
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Trump administration is gutting the National Center for Education Statistics: Here are five things we only know about schools thanks to the NCES
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A strong Department of Education is critical to public schools
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Why we have to keep talking about reparations in 2025
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Forced prison labor in the “Land of the Free”: Rooted in Racism and Economic Exploitation: Spotlight