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• Senior Class: Old dogs, old tricks

  CHAKRABARTI: Back in 1965, when people like George were at the bottom of the corporate ladder, CEOs were paid 21 times more than an average worker in their company. By 2025, that factor had ballooned. CEO pay is now 325 times more than the workers they lead, according to the Economic Policy Institute. So Stanford emeritus professor Bob Sutton asks:

  WBUR | October 9, 2026
• The American Dream and the Moonshot Economy

  There is an opening in America’s economic and political landscape for a resurgence in worker- and consumer-protection policies. Organizations and researchers, including the Roosevelt Institute, the Economic Policy Institute, former FTC Chair Lina Khan, and the late Dr. William Spriggs (who earned his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin – Madison), have researched policies that could strengthen households’ and workers’ bargaining power.

  Milwaukee Courier | October 9, 2026
• Why Those 300,000 Black Women Who Lost Jobs Are Suffering

  It is not just Foster who is struggling with anxiety during these times. According to the Economic Policy Institute, the employment rate for Black women fell by 1.4 percentage points to 55.7% in 2025. Given that 80% of Black mothers are the primary breadwinners in their families, according to Forbes, these unemployment figures place the financial stress of providing for households squarely on the shoulders of millions of Black women.

  The Root | October 9, 2026
• Venezuelans in South Florida Demand End ICE Partnership as Immigration Crackdown Fuels Midterm Backlash

  The groups are also arguing that aggressive immigration enforcement is damaging Doral economically. Activist Juan Cuba said deportations have cost local taxpayers an estimated $62 million, citing data from the Washington-based Economic Policy Institute.

  Latin Times | October 9, 2026
• ‘Canada is not our enemy’: Michigan Republican Senate candidate breaks with Trump on trade war

  And, despite Republican claims that Trump’s tariff policies are boosting industrial employment, data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics compiled by the Economic Policy Institute shows that some 62,000 manufacturing jobs have been lost since Trump took office for his second term in January 2025.

  Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) | October 9, 2026
• A ‘Gut Punch’: Black Women Fired by DOGE Work to Overcome Shame and Self-Blame

  By September 2025, Black women’s unemployment had surged to 7.5%, compared to 4.4% of all U.S. workers at that time. The net loss driven was entirely by losses in the public sector, mostly in federal jobs, according to labor economist Valerie Wilson of the Economic Policy Institute. In the public sector as a whole, more than 155,000 Black women lost their jobs between 2024 and 2025.

  Capital B | October 9, 2026
• Letters to the editor: California is on an unsustainable path, but I’m still an optimist

  According to some economists, minimum wage should be around $25 per hour today if pay had grown properly from 1968 levels. Where would that money come from, you ask? The wages of corporate CEOs.

  The Economic Policy Institute points out this fact: “From 1978-2025, top CEO compensation shot up 1,316%, compared with a 28% increase in a typical worker’s compensation.”

  LA Times | October 7, 2026

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