U.S. employers added 147,000 jobs in June as the American labor market continues to show surprising resilience despite ...

Trump's crackdown on immigration since January has driven down the number of people entering the U.S. to work, and could even send the flow of immigrants into the negative for the first time in ...

Undocumented immigrants contributed $8.5 billion in state and local taxes in 2022, according to a 2024 study from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonpartisan think tank.

The Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, said it believed a better way to help workers would be to raise the federal minimum wage.

Including interest, the House bill would boost the nation's debt by $3.1 trillion, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, an advocacy group focused on fiscal policy.

However, the Senate proposal is different from the House version in two key ways, Matt Gardner, senior fellow at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, wrote in an e-mail.

In 2025, a full-time job at the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour puts a worker under the poverty threshold, according to the Economic Policy Institute.

However, before Musk took to X to begin his tirade against the bill, six Nobel laureates in economics published a joint letter through the Economic Policy Institute, which contained a grave ...

However, the Senate proposal is different from the House version in two key ways, Matt Gardner, senior fellow at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, wrote in an e-mail.

The Economic Policy Institute’s Family Budget Calculator (which takes into account housing, food, transportation, healthcare, taxes, and other necessities) estimates that a household with two ...

If Republicans’ “Big Beautiful Bill” passes the Senate, ICE will have $45 billion to expand its detention capacity, according to the Economic Policy Institute.