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271,500 workers went on strike in 2024 - epi. org The data, combined with an EPI review of publicly available sources, suggest a range of strike activity in 2024 Recurring themes of major stoppages in 2024 include improving pay, expanding benefits, and addressing workplace safety issues
New analysis finds that Trump’s deportation agenda will eliminate . . . While Trump and other conservatives claim that increased deportations will somehow magically create jobs for U S -born workers, the existing evidence shows that the opposite is true: they will cause immense harm to workers and families, shrink the economy, and weaken the labor market for everyone,” said Ben Zipperer, EPI senior economist
The federal minimum wage is officially a poverty wage in 2025 In analysis of legislation introduced in 2021 to gradually increase the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, EPI concluded that the policy would lift between 1 8 to 3 7 million individuals out of poverty, including up to 1 3 million children
Cuts to SNAP benefits will disproportionately harm families of color . . . "SNAP helped lift more than two million people of color out of poverty in 2023: Individuals lifted out of poverty (SPM) in 2023 as a result of SNAP by race and ethnicity, 2023" "From https: www epi org blog cuts-to-snap-benefits-will-disproportionately-harm-families-of-color-and-children " "Group" "Count" "Black " "890,300" "AIAN" "115,000
About - Economic Policy Institute 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
Minimum Wage Tracker - Economic Policy Institute The federal minimum wage has not been raised since 2009 In the absence of action at the national level, many states and localities have raised their own minimum wages Explore the map to see how these rapidly changing laws differ across the country Updated July 1, 2025
Publications - Economic Policy Institute 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
Child care costs in the United States - Economic Policy Institute Learn more To learn more about the high cost of child care, check out these EPI resources: EPI Policy Agenda: Education and Child Care EPI Family Budget Calculator EPI Minimum Wage Tracker Setting higher wages for child care and home health care workers is long overdue What does good child care reform look like? Sources