In stark contrast to prior decades, low-wage workers experienced dramatically fast real wage growth between 2019 and 2023, but many workers continue to suffer from grossly inadequate wages and mi...
Click here for the latest version of our 50-state maps showing legislation to roll back or strengthen child labor Child labor remains a top issue in 2024 state legislative sessions amid soaring v...
The Family Budget Calculator estimates the resources families need to make ends meet across the United States. This report explains how policymakers, employers, and advocates can set meaningful l...
https://www.epi.org/publication/epis-family-budget-calculator/
This is an excerpt from an op-ed that originally ran in CNN. Read the full op-ed In recent years, researchers have debated the simple question of whether inequality has risen a lot or a littl...
In 2023, the issue of child labor re-emerged as a national crisis. Federal data on the rise of child labor violations and numerous investigative reports of widespread illegal youth employment ga...
Submitted online Alejandro Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Charles L. Chief, Business and Foreign Workers Office of Policy and Strategy, U.S.
On January 1, 22 states will increase their minimum wages, raising pay for an estimated 9.9 million workers. In total, workers will receive $6.95 billion in additional wages from state minimum wa...
Newly available wage data from the Social Security Administration (SSA) allow us to analyze wage trends through 2022 for the top 1% and other very high earners, as well as for the bottom 90%.
This blog was produced in collaboration with the National Employment Law In a public opinion poll released earlier this year, more than two-thirds of New York voters expressed a belief that worke...
Submitted electronically on November 14, 2023 via TO: Julie Su, Acting Secretary, U.S. Department of Brian Administrator, Office of Foreign Labor Employment and Training Department of 200 Constit...