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🌟NEW🌟 First-of-its-kind analysis measures how expanding union membership would boost wages, lower inequality, and benefit communities and democracy.
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It’s time for workers to take their power back. Read the report at our link-in-bio.
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And join a virtual conversation with the reporter authors TODAY at 1:00 p.m https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/8717827643035/WN_9zIPU7_VRduqy7ZT7M5-mg If union membership tripled in the U.S. the median worker would earn $7,700 MORE…EVERY YEAR by @economicpolicy

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Imagine if 1 in 3 private-sector workers belonged to a union. What would wages, benefits, and working conditions look like?
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If the labor movement beat back billionaires and big corporations, what would it mean for our economy and democracy.
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Find out Wednesday, July 15 at 1:00 p.m. EST. Register at our link-in-bio. by @economicpolicy

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Recent world events have you wondering, what is the economic state for working America? It's not too late to sign up for tomorrow's webinar where our EPI economist team will break it all down. Sign up at our link-in-bio. by @economicpolicy

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#USMNT soars, job growth does not.

Get all the details on today’s #JobsDay report at our link-in-bio.
#jobs #jobsday #worldcup2026 by @economicpolicy

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JUNE 19, 1865.

On this day, enslaved people in Texas finally learned what had been written on paper two years before: they were legally free.

But freedom on paper has never been the same as freedom in practice. The struggle that Juneteenth marks did not end in 1865. It has continued — through Reconstruction, through Jim Crow, through the Civil Rights Movement, through today. by @economicpolicy

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The expiration of enhanced AÇA tax credits is not a neutral budget decision. It is a policy choice with a documented cost to Black working-class families.
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@k.docwrites breaks it down at our link-in-bio. Losing health care is an economic attack.

How the expiration of enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits are projected to hit Black families. by @economicpolicy

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The economic and policy attacks on Black workers, families, and communities follow a pattern that has been researched and documented by EPI’s Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy team for years.

In the lead-up to Juneteenth, we’re focusing on the research and the analysis that connects the past to this urgent present — and points toward what's possible. by @economicpolicy

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Six million Black Americans built new lives in American cities during the Great Migration—and the federal policies that followed helped transform those cities into economic centers of Black life in America.
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Today, some of those same cities—and the federal investments that support critical public services to local residents—are under attack.
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Tale of 10 cities maps what’s at stake. Read it at our link-in-bio. Juneteenth / Freedom Day
10 cities. 38.6% of the Black labor force.
What’s at stake for Black Americans when the federal government withdraws. by @economicpolicy

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Truth. by @economicpolicy

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Labor market conditions for Black workers were weaker in the first quarter of 2026 compared with the early months of the Trump administration.
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Understand why 👉 read the full analysis at our link-in-bio. The numbers don’t lie.
A snapshot of Black employment under Trump 2.0 by @economicpolicy

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The Trump administration’s deployment of DHS agencies—such as ICE—has caused irreparable harm to our communities, neighbors, and families across the country. The economic costs are also substantial—and mounting.
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Join @cuboulder Chloe N. East, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research’s Aaron Sojourner, and @dcfpi Erica Williams for a discussion on how the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign is harming workers, businesses, and the broader economy with case studies on Minneapolis and the greater Washington, D.C. region.
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Register at link-in-bio Economic Policy Institute invites you to a webinar on The economic costs of DHS attacks on immigrants

Thursday, June 25
1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.

Speakers are Chloe East, Aaron Sojourner, and Erica Williams by @economicpolicy

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