About The State of Working America

The State of Working America has been the Economic Policy Institute’s flagship publication since 1988. The comprehensive economic data that has in the past been in book form is now available on this Web site for the first time in a searchable and highly user-friendly format. The data will be more accessible than ever before to academics, policy makers, the media, and the public. Unlike in the past, this year’s The State of Working America will not be published in book form (the next biennial print edition will appear in January 2013).

The State of Working America Web site presents data in eight broad issue areas: income, economic mobility, wages, jobs, wealth, poverty, health, and international comparisons. Providing a comprehensive examination of critical trends and economic measurements, the data on this site is presented to give readers a deep understanding of the effect of the economy on low- and middle-income American workers and their families.

About the Economic Policy Institute

The Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit Washington D.C. think tank, was created in 1986 to broaden the discussion about economic policy to include the interests of low- and middle-income workers.  EPI was the first — and remains the premier — think tank to focus on the economic condition of low- and middle-income Americans and their families.

For more information about EPI, visit epi.org.

Reposting and citing The State of Working America

Please feel free to reprint or post, without prior permission, the charts from this site in unaltered form.

Recommended citation for material used from this site:

Economic Policy Institute. 2011. Title of chart/page. The State of Working America. Washington, D.C.: Economic Policy Institute. Access date. <URL>.

For example:

Economic Policy Institute. 2011. Workers with every level of education hit by recession. The State of Working America. Washington, D.C.: Economic Policy Institute. Feb. 14, 2011. <www.stateofworkingamerica.org/jobs/figure12>.