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Sep 25, 2025 · CEO-to-worker pay has skyrocketed over the last six decades, growing 1084% compared to a typical workers' pay which only grew 26%. It's excessive no matter how you look at …

Feb 18, 2026 · EPI comment in support of NYC DCWP proposed rule to establish minimum pay protections for grocery delivery workers December 5, 2025 By Nina Mast Public Comments

Feb 10, 2025 · 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 …

Feb 18, 2026 · On average, a worker covered by a union contract earns 12.8% more in wages than a peer in a nonunionized workplace (EPI 2025b). Further, in places or industries where unionization is …

The prime-age employment-to-population ratio is higher for men than women, but both indicators rise in economic recoveries and fall in recessions. United States 25–54 years by Gender Jan 2026 86.2% …

Jul 10, 2025 · 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 …

Read timely day-of-release analysis by EPI’s economists on monthly national and state jobs data, quarterly GDP and international trade data, as well as annual census data on poverty, income and …

Oct 22, 2025 · First, he has taken the historically unprecedented (and clearly unlawful) step of firing dozens of board members and commissioners before the expiration of their terms in office—not for …