Wage inequality continued to increase in 2020: Top 1.0% of earners see wages up 179% since 1979 while share of wages for bottom 90% hits new low
Key numbers: In 2020, annual wages rose fastest for the top 1.0% of earners (up 7.3%) and top 0.1% (up…
Top EPI reports of 2021 focused on economic injustice and its remedies
As the nation pivoted to recovery, readers sought information on ways to remedy the economic injustices laid bare by the…
Top five EPI blog posts of 2021
In 2021, many readers were looking to make sense of worries around potential labor shortages, despite little evidence that shortages…
OSHA vaccine-or-test mandate is smart public policy
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has proposed an emergency temporary standard (ETS) for employers to cope with the…
EPI’s top charts of 2021
The economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic exposed a range of stark inequalities in American society. Besides highlighting these inequalities,…
An economic recovery for whom?: Black women’s employment gaps show important differences in recovery rates
Public discussions about the U.S. economic recovery fail to adequately portray the vastly uneven recovery that has been occurring since…
States are sitting on American Rescue Plan funds that could help against the Omicron variant
The Omicron variant of COVID is surging throughout the world, including in the United States, which is still being hit…
Do We Owe This Boyfriend an Apology?
We recently received the following e-mail from Yu Chen, a 29-year-old engineer supervisor in California who moved to the U.S.…
Any Strategic Reading Tips for a Survivor Applicant?
From a computer scientist (and self-professed “data nerd”) named Scott Griggs: Hi! Long time reader/listener here, looking for some quick…
Quite Possibly the Most Flattering E-Mail Ever
Many people have written many nice things to us over the years. (Of course some people have written some not-so-nice…