Friend,

Even before the pandemic hit, millions of working people were hanging on by a thread—just one accident or medical emergency away from financial ruin. People were faced with increasing costs of housing, education, medical care, and child care—all while wages remained essentially stagnant with most new wealth going to the top 1%. Meanwhile, labor unions have been weakened by a nonstop attack from Wall Street, their allies in Congress and the Trump administration. 
 
This breathtaking EPI report details 50 ways the Trump administration eroded workers’ rights while boosting corporate power. EPI's analysis "reveals that President Trump’s time in office has been marked by a clear commitment to advancing a pro-corporate, anti-worker agenda."
 
We have a lot of work to do to reverse the egregious actions taken by the Trump administration and begin handing power back to working people. To do so, we need the critical economic reports generated by EPI to help policymakers and activists alike fight for the progressive economic change we urgently need.
 
As a co-founder of EPI, I am proud to use EPI’s charts and reports in my classroom and in my tweets—helping to explain how we build an economy for the future to reverse four decades of stagnant wages and widening inequality when almost all economic gains went to the top.
 
Can you make a year-end, tax-deductible donation to EPI today to fight for transformative economic change?

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President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris ran on the most progressive economic and racial justice platform of any major party nominees in modern history. Now is the time to take bold steps to address rising levels of income and wealth inequality, and strengthen the rights and wages of working people.
 
Here are just a handful of the actions taken by the Trump administration, which we must immediately reverse: they engaged in persistent efforts to take away workers’ health care, stopped FICA contributions for Social Security from workers making less than $2,000 per week (which did nothing to help people who lost their job during the pandemic), persisted in attempts to end DACA, issued an executive order that intimidated local health departments from closing meat-processing plants with significant COVID-19 outbreaks, excluded millions of workers from paid leave provisions in the Families First Coronavirus Relief Act (FFCRA), suspended all union elections, decreased workplace safety inspections, proposed a rule that would lower the earnings of tipped workers, prevented millions of workers from receiving overtime, and much, much more.
 
In just a few weeks, after Joe Biden is sworn in as the next President of the United States, we have a real chance—the best opportunity in years—to make significant progress for working families across the United States. But to hold our newly elected leaders accountable to their promises and get legislation advanced through Congress, we need the economic research provided by EPI.
 
Join me in supporting EPI today by making a year-end tax-deductible donation to invest in the research behind our progressive movement for transformative economic change.
 
Friend, you have done so much in 2020 and throughout the last four years to defend against the unrelenting attacks of the Trump administration. Now, together in 2021, we have the opportunity to fight for real structural change to fundamentally rebuild the promise of "the American Dream" for working people throughout our country.
 
I helped found EPI more than three decades ago because I knew we needed a dedicated team of economists generating ground-breaking work on behalf of working people. I hope you’ll join me today with a year-end donation to power the research behind our movement to fix an economic system that has been rigged to work for the few, not for the many.
 
Thank you for all you do to fight for an economy that works for everyone, not just the wealthy few.
 
Robert Reich
Former U.S. Secretary of Labor
Co-founder, Economic Policy Institute
Co-founder, Inequality Media
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