EPI was founded more than 30 years ago to lift up the voices of working people. Together, we’re working to ensure the Biden-Harris transition team, and all elected officials, understand that moral policy = good economics.
 
That means adequate and well-crafted COVID relief, a smooth and open transition of power, prioritizing workers' rights and wages, implementing a $15 minimum wage by 2025, achieving universal healthcare, sustaining full employment, strengthening unemployment insurance, expanding voting rights, and reversing the chronic racial and economic inequality faced by millions of Americans.
 
Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday, a day to support your favorite nonprofits that are doing critical work to lift up our communities and our families. Help us get an early start with a donation today to invest in the research that fuels our movement for progressive economic change.
 
Throughout the last year, EPI has worked alongside our allies in our shared fight for racial and economic justice. We’ve produced powerful and startling economic reports that show the disproportionate impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Black and Latinx workers. Since 2008, EPI's Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy (PREE) has shown how persistent disparities in unemployment, wages, income, poverty, and wealth are rooted in policy choices.
 
We have also fought to expand the rights and power of unions to lift up working families. One of the strongest forces for equality and a vibrant middle class is the collective power of workers. When unions are robust, they secure rights, wages, and workplace protections that benefit all workers.
 
Through charts and graphs we explain the economic disparities felt by millions of working people: