Economic Policy Institute

The Economic Policy Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan economic research center created in 1986 to use the tools of economics to promote the interests of low- and middle-income workers, their families, and their communities in national economic policy debates. The institute’s work emphasizes the role that deliberate policy choices have had in driving the steep rise in wealth, income, and wage inequality over the last four decades. The institute proposes national- and state-level public policies designed to reverse rising inequality by shifting the balance of economic power in the direction of low- and middle-income workers.

The Economic Policy Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan economic research center created in 1986 to use the tools of economics to promote the interests of low- and middle-income workers, their families, and their communities in national economic policy debates. The institute’s work emphasizes the role that deliberate policy choices have had in driving the steep rise in wealth, income, and wage inequality over the last four decades. The institute proposes national- and state-level public policies designed to reverse rising inequality by shifting the balance of economic power in the direction of low- and middle-income workers.