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• Local childcare providers in Bowling Green facing financial strains

  According to the Economic Policy Institute, the annual cost of infant care in Kentucky is $730 a month. Their studies show that’s just 25.1 percent less than average rent.

  WNKY-TV (Kentucky) | July 15, 2026
• Young People Want to Leave Vermont Over Affordability Concerns, Poll Finds

  While Vermont has prioritized investments that have made childcare more affordable and accessible, wait lists remain common. And Vermont families still pay more than $1,000 a month for childcare, according to data released early last year by the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.

  Seven Days (Vermont) | July 15, 2026
• Millions face working longer under plans to speed up state pension age rise

  Roughly 31.6% of workers ages 55 to 64 hold jobs requiring significant physical effort, a joint analysis by the Economic Policy Institute and The New School’s Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis found.

  The Telegraph | July 15, 2026
• How suing Biden more than 100 times fueled Ken Paxton’s rise and reshaped Texans’ lives

  In April 2024, the Biden administration cleared the way for more than 4 million low-wage workers to collect overtime pay. People earning less than $58,656 were to be paid time and a half if they worked over 40 hours a week, a shift that would put $1.5 billion into workers’ pockets, according to the Economic Policy Institute.

  The Texas Tribune | July 15, 2026
• How suing Biden more than 100 times fueled Ken Paxton’s rise and reshaped Texans’ lives

  In April 2024, the Biden administration cleared the way for more than 4 million low-wage workers to collect overtime pay. People earning less than $58,656 were to be paid time and a half if they worked over 40 hours a week, a shift that would put $1.5 billion into workers’ pockets, according to the Economic Policy Institute.

  The Texas Tribune | July 14, 2026
• Minimum wage increases mid-year in states, localities

  The minimum wage increased July 1 in Alaska, Oregon and Washington, DC, as well as in 14 cities and counties across the country, the Economic Policy Institute said in a blog post. 

  McKnight’s Senior Living | July 13, 2026
• Revised ‘joint employer’ rule could cost workers about $1B annually, EPI says

  Redefining “joint employer” as proposed by the Department of Labor has proposed could cost workers approximately $1 billion annually “through increases in workplace fissuring and exposure to wage theft,” according to the nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank Economic Policy Institute. 

  McKnight’s Senior Living | July 13, 2026

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