The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank created in 1986 to bring the concerns of regular working families to economic policy debates. By providing the intellectual support for good policy, EPI seeks to create an economy that works for all Americans, where: • Hard-working low-wage employees make enough to attain a modest but adequate living. • Workers, who are increasing their productivity, get their fair share of economic growth. • The middle class is strong and healthy. • Every worker has a good job, with a living wage, affordable health care, and a secure retirement. • People invest in their education, their skills, and their families, knowing that if they work hard those investments will pay off, not get sidelined by policies stacked against them. • The government maintains full employment and invests in the public infrastructure—from roads to technology to education—that creates jobs and keeps America moving forward.
titles from this organization
Who's Getting Ahead? Opportunity in a Growing Economy
Sep 1, 2006
Publisher(s): Oregon Center for Public Policy
Labor unions and the defense of American democracy: The fight over ballot drop boxes during the 2022 midterm elections
Dec 20, 2023
Publisher(s): Economic Policy Institute
Power in partnership: How government agencies and community partners are joining forces to fight wage theft
Jun 8, 2023
Publisher(s): Economic Policy Institute; Center for Labor & a Just Economy at Harvard Law School
Congress should vote against overturning an updated rule that protects farmworkers from being underpaid
Jun 6, 2023
Publisher(s): Economic Policy Institute
Many older workers have difficult jobs that put them at risk
May 17, 2023
Publisher(s): Economic Policy Institute
The economics of abortion bans: Abortion bans, low wages, and public underinvestment are interconnected economic policy tools to disempower and control workers
Jan 18, 2023
Publisher(s): Economic Policy Institute
The Older Workers and Retirement Chartbook
Nov 16, 2022
Publisher(s): Economic Policy Institute; Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis
As the H-2B visa program grows, the need for reforms that protect workers is greater than ever
Aug 18, 2022
Publisher(s): Economic Policy Institute
Racial and ethnic disparities in the United States: An interactive chartbook
Jun 17, 2022
Publisher(s): Economic Policy Institute
Unions are not only good for workers, they’re good for communities and for democracy
Dec 15, 2021
Publisher(s): Economic Policy Institute
New evidence of widespread wage theft in the H-1B visa program
Dec 9, 2021
Publisher(s): Economic Policy Institute
- Center for Economic and Policy Research
- Economic Opportunity Institute
- Stanford Graduate School of Education
- Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at University of California, Berkeley
- Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis
- Center for Labor & a Just Economy at Harvard Law School