Economic Policy Institute

Economic Policy Institute

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  • House budget bill would kick 15 million people off health insurance and damage local economies

    3 weeks ago | epi.org | Josh Bivens

    House Republicans wanted to find a way to defray the cost of the tax cuts they passed for the richest households in the country. They chose to slash programs helping some of the most vulnerable families—including Medicaid and subsidies that let people buy health insurance through the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

  • The U.S. approach to globalization has gone from bad to worse under Trump: How to construct a progressive policy agenda instead

    1 month ago | epi.org | Josh Bivens |Adam Hersh

    Recent public opinion polling indicates that Americans seem to have nuanced views on trade. They are skeptical of the benefits of trade with other countries (particularly China) and yet are also skeptical about the benefits of higher import tariffs, worrying that they could lead to higher prices (Gracia 2024; Lange and Lawder 2024). On the surface, these views may seem inconsistent, but they are perceptive about the differences between the effects of trade versus the effects of trade policy.

  • EPI condemns House passage of dangerous tax and spending bill

    1 month ago | epi.org | Heidi Shierholz

    Today, the Trump administration and nearly all Republicans in the House of Representatives took another step toward advancing their top economic priority: keeping taxes for the wealthy and corporations at rock-bottom rates, by any means necessary. The budget reconciliation bill that the House passed today, H.R. 1, represents a massive redistribution of income to the richest households in the country at the expense of some of the poorest.

  • Too many workers die on the job every year. Trump’s attacks on OSHA will kill more. | Economic Policy Institute

    2 months ago | epi.org

    This Monday marked Workers Memorial Day, an annual international day of remembrance of workers who have died on the job, as well as a day of action to continue the fight for workplace safety. An estimated 140,587 U.S. workers died from hazardous working conditions in 2023, according to a new AFL-CIO report. This amounts to…

  • The federal minimum wage is officially a poverty wage in 2025 | Economic Policy Institute

    2 months ago | epi.org

    In 2025, the federal minimum wage is officially a “poverty wage.” The annual earnings of a single adult working full-time, year-round at $7.25 an hour now fall below the poverty threshold of $15,650 (established by the Department of Health and Human Services guidelines). The limitations of how the federal government calculates poverty understate how far…

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