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• Election 2012: Where President Obama and Mitt Romney Stand on Young Women’s Top 3 Issues

  Glamour magazine spoke to Elise Gould, EPI’s director of health policy research, to compare the candidates’ stances on health reform and its impact on women. Gould explained that the Affordable Care Act will save young women money because “it prohibits insurers from charging women more for the same level of coverage as men and provides free preventive care.”

  Glamour | October 5, 2012
• Why Let the Rich Hoard All the Toys?

  And New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof bemoaned the nation’s staggering wealth disparity and ever-growing inequality. “Our wealth has become so skewed that the top 1 percent possesses a greater collective worth than the entire bottom 90 percent, according to the Economic Policy Institute in Washington,” wrote Kristof.

  The New York Times | October 4, 2012
• Our Crisis of Bad Jobs

  Economics reporter Jeff Madrick detailed how the lingering jobs crisis is decimating the middle class and compared the two presidential candidates’ proposals to address it.

  The New York Review of Books | October 2, 2012
• Payroll Tax Cut Is Unlikely to Survive Into Next Year

  New York Times business reporter Annie Lowrey turned to EPI to emphasize the stimulative effects of the payroll tax cut, likely to end next year.

  The New York Times | October 2, 2012
• Mitt Romney’s Real Agenda

  Rolling Stone’s Tim Dickinson also used EPI’s research to delve into Romney’s economic plans.

  Rolling Stone | October 2, 2012
• Report: America’s Lowest Earners Spent Double Their Incomes

  Is the system stacked against the bottom fifth earners? Elise Gould, Economic Policy Institute, and Nicholas Eberstadt, American Enterprise Institute, offer insight.

  CNBC | September 28, 2012
• United States Economy Still Weak, but More Feel Secure

  “There is a recovery. There are jobs. There is more income. There is some improvement,” said Lawrence Mishel, a labor market expert at and president of the liberal Economic Policy Institute. “But the improvement is obviously disappointing,” he added, a sentiment that many economists echoed.

  The New York Times | September 28, 2012

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