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Tariffs—Everything you need to know but were afraid to ask
Feb 10, 2025 · During his presidential campaign, President Trump pledged to impose universal tariffs of 10–60% on all U.S. imports—a whopping $4.2 trillion in goods and services purchased from abroad …
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About EPI. The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank working for the last 30 years to counter rising inequality, low wages and weak benefits for working people, slower …
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The EPI Data Library offers comprehensive, up-to-date labor data from Economic Policy Institute analysis, covering wages, inequality, and economic trends across demographics.
CEO Pay | Economic Policy Institute - epi.org
Sep 25, 2025 · CEO-to-worker pay has skyrocketed over the last six decades, growing 1084% compared to a typical workers' pay which only grew 26%. It's excessive no matter how you look at …
The teacher pay penalty reached a record high in 2024 - epi.org
Sep 24, 2025 · Over the past three decades, stagnant weekly wages of public school teachers have fallen further and further behind those of college graduates who chose other careers, resulting in an …
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Data Library The State of Working America Data Library provides researchers, media, and the public with easily accessible, up-to-date, and comprehensive historical data on the American labor force. It …
More than $1.5 billion in stolen wages recovered for workers between ...
Dec 20, 2024 · A 2021 EPI report found that only $3.24 billion in stolen wages was recovered for workers in a four-year period (2017–2020) by DOL, state departments of labor and attorneys …
CEO pay increased in 2024 and is now 281 times that of the ... - epi.org
Sep 25, 2025 · EPI’s new CEO pay data page provides the underlying pay data for the pay of both CEOs and the average of top 0.1% in every year the data are available since 1965. Rising CEO pay …
Trump’s deportation agenda will destroy millions of jobs
Jul 10, 2025 · Deportations will eliminate millions of jobs held by immigrant and U.S.-born workers according to research on increased immigration enforcement.