For the past four decades, one small and scrappy think tank has played a key role in reviving and reinventing U.S. liberalism, and returning its concerns to the well-being of U.S. workers. By providing the analysis and the hard numbers that demonstrated the failure of the neoliberal policies that Democrats as well as Republicans had turned to after the 1970s, the Economic Policy Institute has helped create an updated version of New Deal economics, while also addressing the concerns of race and gender that the New Deal had largely overlooked.
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Table of Contents
- Working America’s think tank A history of the Economic Policy Institute 1
- We needed data 2
- The origins of EPI 2
- Good with the numbers 4
- EPI defines itself 4
- The gap between productivity and a typical worker’s compensation has increased dramatically since 1979 Productivity growth and hourly compensation growth, 1948–2024 5
- CEOs make 344 times as much as typical workers CEO-to-worker compensation ratio, 1965–2022 7
- Everybody wins except for most of us 8
- Class and schools 11
- EPI and education 11
- Advocacy, outreach, and growth 12
- EPI’s mission expands 12
- In the states 15
- EPI and EARN 15
- The exploitation of Black, female, and immigrant workers 17
- EPI and PREE 17
- Winning the battle of ideas 19
- EPI’s trajectory from heretic to oracle 19
- Sign up to stay informed 22
- Follow EPI 22
- Projects 22
- State of Working America Data Library 22
- Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy • PREE 22
- Unequal Power 23
- Policy Agenda 23
- Tax & Spending Explorer 23
- Inequality.is 23
- Affiliated programs 23
- Economic Analysis and Research Network • EARN 23
- About EPI 23
