It's time to build an America where families can thrive. The FAMILY Act is the solution. @clasp.org demonstrates how a national #PaidLeave program would reduce poverty, improve health outcomes, and support families. #PaidLeave #FAMILYAct #FamiliesFirst www.clasp.org/wp-content/u...

North Carolina must invest in affordable childcare so we have an economy that works for all of us, regardless of who we are or where we live. Tell your state lawmaker that a thriving economy is #poweredbychildcare! #ncpol

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Today @murray.senate.gov and @bobbyscott.house.gov reintroduced the Child Care for Working Families Act. This critical legislation would make child care affordable so that all parents have high-quality care options for their children. A quick thread on why this matters 🧵 tcf.org/content/comm...

HHS announced today they will consider Head Start a welfare program, not an education program, and will subject it to new citizenship requirements. This goes against decades of legal precedence that all children in America have a right to education. Announcement here. www.hhs.gov/press-room/p...

Today is Black Women's Equal Pay Day: 191 days into this year, Black women have just caught up to earning what white non-Hispanic men were paid in 2024 alone. The pay gap adds up to nearly $1 million in lost wages.

Learn more and take action ⤵️

Feminists.co/discover/black-womens-equal-pay-day

Learn more about the CROWN Act in our blog from EPI's @jasminepp.bsky.social:

www.epi.org/blog/half-of...

With Trump's attacks on equity & diversity, it's more important than ever to protect Black & brown people from hair discrimination.

On this CROWN Day, 27 states have already passed the #CROWNAct, but more states need to combat racism & ban hair discrimination at work, school, & beyond! #CROWNLove

🧵Mother and Father’s Day are over but in light of so many horrific I cuts, I want to again highlight the urgent need for a comprehensive Paid Family and Medical Leave program in addition to other protections!

Crockett: How is it that you can explain that we still are running up the credit card and we have nothing to show for it except for the fact that we won't have food on the tables and we won’t have health care.

"This country deserves better than this dumpster fire of a bill," says EPI President @hshierholz.bsky.social.

Read her full statement here: www.epi.org/press/epi-pr...

When the FLSA established a federal minimum wage, it didn't cover all workers due to racist occupational exclusions. We've seen important steps to expand coverage since then, but we still have further to go:

www.epi.org/blog/a-histo...

Happy anniversary to the Fair Labor Standards Act! 🎉

We hope you last another 87 years—and that you get some long-overdue improvements!

The FLSA brought us important labor standards like the federal minimum wage and child labor protections.

Check out our work on these important topics: 🧵

In the South, low-income people pay twice as much tax as the richest 1%

Does that seem fair to you?

Many Southern states prioritize corporations & the rich, at the expense of working people. We need to make the rich pay their fair share of taxes!

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Today, House Republicans passed a dangerous bill that betrays working people, takes food from kids, & rips away health care from the poor to give massive tax breaks to the rich.

EPI condemns this bill and all who voted for it. The Senate needs to reject this bill.

www.epi.org/press/epi-co...

EPI's Heidi Shierholz on Trump's latest salvo--dismantling collective bargaining for federal workers:

"This is the behavior of an autocrat who grants rights to those who bow down to him and strips the rights of those who challenge him."

www.epi.org/press/trump-...

Stripping collective bargaining and union rights from workers across the federal government is the very definition of union busting — and a blatant attempt to silence us.

We will fight this outrageous attack on our members with every fiber of our collective being.

We’re here, we’re seeds, we’re power!