EPI in the news

• NLRB bans controversial captive-audience meetings

  The Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a nonprofit, nonpartisan think-tank, found that 89% of employers use captive audience meetings to try to stop the creation of unions among their workers. In fact, employer spending to prevent the formation of unions has reached $400 million a year for anti-union consultants.

  New York Amsterdam News | November 21, 2024
• How expensive is it to raise kids in Las Vegas?

  The most expensive place to raise children is Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Las Vegas was just behind Los Angeles and beat out cities such as San Francisco, Denver and Boston. The study used the Economic Policy Institute’s Family Budget Calculator and compared two adult households to households with a couple with no kids.

  Las Vegas Review-Journal | November 21, 2024
• 13 signs of over-the-top wealth and luxury I spotted in Jackson Hole, the Aspen of Wyoming

  I was reporting from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, one of the most unequal places in America. According to the Economic Policy Institute, the top 1% of residents earn 132 times more than the bottom 99%.

  Business Insider | November 21, 2024
• Escambia County Public Schools feels effect of nationwide school bus driver shortage

  There is a shortage of school bus drivers nationwide. According to the Economic Policy Institute, as of this past September, there are more than 12% fewer drivers on the road than in September 2019.

  Escambia County Public Schools says its feeling the effect. School officials tell WEAR News this shortage is not new.

  WEAR-TV (Florida) | November 21, 2024
• Trump Won the Election: How His Tax Plan Could Affect the Upper Middle Class

  Organizations like Americans for Tax Fairness, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and the Economic Policy Institute have long concluded that the TCJA favored the rich and would do so again if made permanent, as Trump proposes. Therefore, it’s logical that many of its provisions would also favor the upper middle class — but not enough to offset what the Tax Foundation and ITEP agree will be the high cost of tariffs.

  GO Banking Rates | November 21, 2024
• Older US workers can soon make ‘super’ 401(k) catch-up contributions to ‘sock away more’ for retirement

  And many may need the additional help considering that, as of 2019, just over 1-in-3 workers between 55 and 64 years old lacked access to an employer-sponsored retirement plan, according to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI).

  MoneyWise | November 21, 2024
• Most expensive US cities to raise kids in 2024 revealed

  A recent study used data from the Economic Policy Institute’s (EPI) Family Budget Calculator to determine the most expensive locations for raising kids in the U.S. Researchers at Upgraded Points calculated the percentage difference in the required living costs to maintain a modest but adequate standard of living for a 2-adult household compared to 2-adult households without children. The costs factored in housing, child care, health care, transportation, food and other necessities. 

  FOX 10 Phoenix | November 21, 2024

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