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• Workers’ resolve drives increase in unionization in 2025 - Economic Policy Institute
• Unemployment Insurance (UI) Claims - Economic Policy Institute
• Black women suffered large employment losses in 2025—particularly among college graduates and public-sector workers - Economic Policy Institute
• Strong unions, stronger communities and democracy - Economic Policy Institute
• Low-wage workers faced worsening affordability in 2025 as wage growth stalled - Economic Policy Institute
• A more diverse workforce isn’t ‘DEI-motivated discrimination’—it’s just demographic change - Economic Policy Institute
• Data accountability dashboard - Economic Policy Institute
• Trump’s new H-2A wage rule will radically cut the wages of all farmworkers: New estimates show farmworkers stand to lose $4.4 to $5.4 billion annually under DOL’s updated Adverse Effect Wage Rate - Economic Policy Institute
• Billionaire-funded Trump Accounts won’t end child poverty But they will widen structural inequities in the U.S. economy - Economic Policy Institute
• Trump’s assault on independent agencies endangers us all - Economic Policy Institute
• The missing piece in the affordability debate: Higher paychecks - Economic Policy Institute
• The school bus driver shortage has improved slightly but continues to stress K–12 public education - Economic Policy Institute
• Paul Krugman: An Indispensable Man - Economic Policy Institute
• EPI Impact Report - Economic Policy Institute
• CEO pay has skyrocketed since 1978 - Economic Policy Institute
• The teacher pay penalty reached a record high in 2024: Three decades of leaving public school teachers behind - Economic Policy Institute
• What’s behind rising unemployment for Black workers? - Economic Policy Institute
• Unions aren’t just good for workers—they also benefit communities and democracy - Economic Policy Institute
• The H-2B visa program has ballooned without being fixed. Expanding it to year-round jobs like meatpacking would lower wages and revenue: A high-road employment strategy that includes green cards would raise wages and spur investment instead - Economic Policy Institute
• CEO pay increased in 2024 and is now 281 times that of the typical worker New EPI landing page has all the details - Economic Policy Institute
• Trump’s deportation agenda will destroy millions of jobs - Economic Policy Institute
• Trump’s Department of Labor is dismantling key workplace protections - Economic Policy Institute
• 100 ways Trump hurt workers in his first 100 days - Economic Policy Institute
• A ‘$30 by 2030’ minimum wage in New York City is a bold proposal The first step is giving the city the freedom to set its own wage floor - Economic Policy Institute
• The federal minimum wage is officially a poverty wage in 2025 - Economic Policy Institute
• Forget ‘no tax on tips’—increasing the minimum wage would deliver dramatically larger raises for millions more workers without letting employers off the hook - Economic Policy Institute
• Strong wage growth for low-wage workers bucks the historic trend - Economic Policy Institute
• The impact of the Raise the Wage Act of 2025 - Economic Policy Institute
• The impact of the Raise the Wage Act of 2023 - Economic Policy Institute
• This July, 15 states and localities increase their minimum wage while others claw back gains for workers - Economic Policy Institute
• The economic costs of worker misclassification - Economic Policy Institute
• Unions help reduce disparities and strengthen our democracy - Economic Policy Institute
• Profits and price inflation are indeed linked - Economic Policy Institute
• Corporate profits have contributed disproportionately to inflation. How should policymakers respond? - Economic Policy Institute
• Unions promote racial equity - Economic Policy Institute
• Identifying the policy levers generating wage suppression and wage inequality - Economic Policy Institute
• The pandemic has exacerbated a long-standing national shortage of teachers - Economic Policy Institute
• What is DOGE doing to Social Security? - Economic Policy Institute
• Teacher pay rises in 2023—but not enough to shrink pay gap with other college graduates - Economic Policy Institute
• The public-sector pay gap is widening. Unions help shrink it. - Economic Policy Institute
• How many farmworkers are employed in the United States? - Economic Policy Institute
• Black federal workers by state - Economic Policy Institute
• The enormous impact of eroded collective bargaining on wages - Economic Policy Institute
• Teacher pay penalty still looms large: Trends in teacher wages and compensation through 2022 - Economic Policy Institute
• CEO pay declined in 2023: But it has soared 1,085% since 1978 compared with a 24% rise in typical workers’ pay - Economic Policy Institute
• Tipping is a racist relic and a modern tool of economic oppression in the South - Economic Policy Institute
• Racial representation in professional occupations: By the numbers - Economic Policy Institute
• Tariffs—Everything you need to know but were afraid to ask - Economic Policy Institute
• CEO pay slightly declined in 2022 - Economic Policy Institute
• Average wages have surpassed inflation for 12 straight months - Economic Policy Institute
• Workers want unions, but the latest data point to obstacles in their path - Economic Policy Institute
• What constitutes a living wage?: A guide to using EPI’s Family Budget Calculator - Economic Policy Institute
• Fastest wage growth over the last four years among historically disadvantaged groups - Economic Policy Institute
• Gender wage gap persists in 2023: Women are paid roughly 22% less than men on average - Economic Policy Institute
• Working people want a voice at work - Economic Policy Institute
• Why Global Steel Surpluses Warrant U.S. Section 232 Import Measures - Economic Policy Institute
• 2025 annual summary | State Unemployment by Race and Ethnicity - Economic Policy Institute
• U.S. labor shortage? Unlikely. Here’s why - Economic Policy Institute
• As Michigan’s repeal takes effect, New Hampshire should continue to reject ‘right-to-work’ legislation - Economic Policy Institute
• CEO pay has skyrocketed 1,460% since 1978: CEOs were paid 399 times as much as a typical worker in 2021 - Economic Policy Institute
• What future will U.S. truck manufacturing have under Trump? - Economic Policy Institute
• Decades of slow wage growth for telecommunications workers - Economic Policy Institute
• Inequality in annual earnings worsens in 2021 - Economic Policy Institute
• The Productivity–Pay Gap - Economic Policy Institute
• Record-low number of federal wage and hour investigations of farms in 2022 - Economic Policy Institute
• Domestic Workers Chartbook 2022: A comprehensive look at the demographics, wages, benefits, and poverty rates of the professionals who care for our family members and clean our homes - Economic Policy Institute
• There will be pain: Continuing low tax rates for the rich and corporations will hurt working families - Economic Policy Institute
• Botched policy responses to globalization have decimated manufacturing employment with often overlooked costs for Black, Brown, and other workers of color: Investing in infrastructure and rebalancing trade can create good jobs for all - Economic Policy Institute
• Understanding black-white disparities in labor market outcomes requires models that account for persistent discrimination and unequal bargaining power - Economic Policy Institute
• Flexible work: What workers, especially low-wage workers, really want and how best to provide it - Economic Policy Institute
• Forced prison labor in the “Land of the Free”: Rooted in Racism and Economic Exploitation: Spotlight - Economic Policy Institute
• Southern policymakers leave workers with lower wages and a fraying safety net - Economic Policy Institute
• Who are America’s meat and poultry workers? - Economic Policy Institute
• Black-white wage gaps are worse today than in 2000 - Economic Policy Institute
• Funder acknowledgments and disclosure principles - Economic Policy Institute
• Cuts to SNAP benefits will disproportionately harm families of color and children - Economic Policy Institute
• State of Working America 2021: Measuring wages in the pandemic labor market - Economic Policy Institute
• Teacher pay penalty dips but persists in 2019 - Economic Policy Institute
• National survey of gig workers paints a picture of poor working conditions, low pay - Economic Policy Institute
• Black-white wage gaps expand with rising wage inequality - Economic Policy Institute
• Over 9.2 million workers will get a raise on January 1 from 21 states raising their minimum wages - Economic Policy Institute
• State of Working America Wages 2019: A story of slow, uneven, and unequal wage growth over the last 40 years - Economic Policy Institute
• The economics of abortion bans: Abortion bans, low wages, and public underinvestment are interconnected economic policy tools to disempower and control workers - Economic Policy Institute
• Child care is unaffordable for working families across the country—including in New Mexico - Economic Policy Institute
• The farmworker wage gap Farmworkers earned 40% less than comparable nonagricultural workers in 2022 - Economic Policy Institute
• What does good child care reform look like? - Economic Policy Institute
• Labor Day 2019 | Low-wage workers are suffering from a decline in the real value of the federal minimum wage - Economic Policy Institute
• Heidi Shierholz - Economic Policy Institute
• More than 8 million workers will get a raise on New Year’s Day 23 states and D.C. will see minimum wage hikes ranging from $0.23 to $1.50 an hour - Economic Policy Institute
• CEO pay has skyrocketed 1,322% since 1978: CEOs were paid 351 times as much as a typical worker in 2020 - Economic Policy Institute
• Class of 2018: College edition - Economic Policy Institute
• Twenty-two states will increase their minimum wages on January 1, raising pay for nearly 10 million workers - Economic Policy Institute
• Public education funding in the U.S. needs an overhaul - Economic Policy Institute
• Setting higher wages for child care and home health care workers is long overdue - Economic Policy Institute
• The U.S. benefits from immigration but policy reforms needed to maximize gains Recommendations and a review of key issues to ensure fair wages and labor standards for all workers - Economic Policy Institute
• Wage inequality fell in 2023 amid a strong labor market, bucking long-term trends But top 1% wages have skyrocketed 182% since 1979 while bottom 90% wages have seen just 44% growth - Economic Policy Institute
• Black and Hispanic women are paid substantially less than white men - Economic Policy Institute
• Data on income gains support 99ers’ gripes - Economic Policy Institute
• Tech and outsourcing companies continue to exploit the H-1B visa program at a time of mass layoffs - Economic Policy Institute
• The stakes for workers in how policymakers manage the coming shift to all-electric vehicles - Economic Policy Institute