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Tariffs—Everything you need to know but were afraid to ask 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 in 2024 This was always a real possibility The International Economic Emergency Powers Act gives the president broad authority to do so In early February the Trump administration seemed…
271,500 workers went on strike in 2024 - epi. org The data, combined with an EPI review of publicly available sources, suggest a range of strike activity in 2024 Recurring themes of major stoppages in 2024 include improving pay, expanding benefits, and addressing workplace safety issues
About - Economic Policy Institute 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 economic growth, unacceptable employment conditions, and a widening racial wage gap
Publications - Economic Policy Institute EPI comment on OPM’s proposed rule on “Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service” May 23, 2025 By Samantha Sanders and Ben Zipperer Public Comments
Resources - Economic Policy Institute Read timely day-of-release analysis by EPI’s economists on monthly national and state jobs data, quarterly GDP and international trade data, as well as annual census data on poverty, income and employer-provided health insurance
Topics - EPI Data Library United States by Wage percentile 2024 $62 75 90th percentile $24 87 50th percentile (median) $14 26 10th percentile EXPLORE ALL TOPICS Employment Data on the labor force are compiled from EPI analysis of basic monthly Current Population Survey microdata
How anti-worker policies, crony capitalism, and privatization keep the . . . A 2017 EPI analysis of wage theft in the 10 most populous states—including Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Texas—found that workers were cheated out of $8 billion annually due to minimum wage violations alone (Cooper and Kroeger 2017)
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