- Tariffs—Everything you need to know but were afraid to ask
During his presidential campaign, President Trump pledged to impose universal tariffs of 10–60% on all U S imports—a whopping $4 2 trillion in goods and services purchased from abroad in 2024 This was always a real possibility The International Economic Emergency Powers Act gives the president broad authority to do so In early February the Trump administration seemed…
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EPI analyzes the U S health care system through the lens of low- and moderate-income families’ living standards, with special attention to employer-sponsored health insurance, the burden of health costs, and disparities in access and outcomes
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EPI comment on OPM’s proposed rule on “Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service” May 23, 2025 By Samantha Sanders and Ben Zipperer Public Comments
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About EPI The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank working for the last 30 years to counter rising inequality, low wages and weak benefits for working people, slower economic growth, unacceptable employment conditions, and a widening racial wage gap
- How anti-worker policies, crony capitalism, and privatization keep the . . .
A 2017 EPI analysis of wage theft in the 10 most populous states—including Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Texas—found that workers were cheated out of $8 billion annually due to minimum wage violations alone (Cooper and Kroeger 2017)
- This July, 15 states and localities increase their minimum wage while . . .
According to EPI’s Minimum Wage Tracker, 30 states and D C have a higher minimum wage than the federal minimum Many of these gains were achieved through the ballot initiative process
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United States by Outcome 2024 396 0 Net productivity (output per hour) 242 5 Total compensation per hour EXPLORE ALL TOPICS Employment Data on the labor force are compiled from EPI analysis of basic monthly Current Population Survey microdata
- Trump’s deportation agenda will destroy millions of jobs - epi. org
Source: Extrapolations from East et al (2023) and Howard, Wang, and Zhang (2024), as described in the text Baseline employment levels from EPI (2025) analysis of the 2024 basic monthly Current Population Survey
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