Eve Tahmincioglu

Let's get beyond Overwhelm and Over Work. Listen to my conversation with Kate Byrne on the Women Advancing podcast where we talk about how we get here, and where we all need to go to reclaim our time.

“Some hospice firms bribe physicians to bring them new patients by offering all-expenses-paid trips to Las Vegas nightclubs, complete with bottle service and private security details. (The former mayor of Rio Bravo, Texas, who was also a doctor, received outright kickbacks.)”

The Hospice Hustle Half of all Americans now die in hospice care. Easy money and a lack of regulation transformed a crusade to provide death with dignity into an industry rife with fraud and exploitation.

Half of all Americans die in hospice care. Easy money and a lack of regulation transformed a crusade to provide death with dignity into an industry rife with fraud and exploitation.

(Published 2022)

Hey ChatGPT: Is Musk's "billionaires' bill" good for society? Don’t settle for AI’s surface-level take on the societal impact of any bill

It’s critically important to have a human who at least marginally understands a topic writing prompts for AI tools in order to weed out the possible bias or just bogus information an AI model can often respond with.

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Have You Recently Sought Help From the CFPB? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is walking away from cases that might have helped return money to consumers across the U.S. We want to hear from people who feel left behind.

What happens when America's consumer watchdog walks away from cases it was pursuing?

My @propublica.org colleagues want to hear from people on the ground. www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...

YouTube video by Mother Jones Meet Pam, the Insurrectionist Rejecting Trump’s Pardon

Listen to Pam share in her own words why she is rejecting Trump's pardon. ⬇️

Child poverty bankrupts Dr. King’s dream for economic justice Children, poverty, and economic freedom were at the heart of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963 when he spoke before more than 200,000 demonstrators at the March on Washingt...

“Dr. King dreamed of a day when children would be judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin. More than six decades later, child poverty continues to bankrupt the bank of justice that can help make this dream a reality.” www.epi.org/blog/child-p...

Ahead of #MLKDay, we’re reflecting on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision for economic justice—a future where everyone has the resources to live safe, dignified, and fulfilling lives. Central to this vision was establishing a #guaranteedincome. 1/

This Virginia program helps former foster youth get degrees, at any age Great Expectations was designed to help people who grew up in foster care get their two-year degrees. And unlike many programs for former foster youth, there are no age limits.

Great Expectations was designed to help people who grew up in foster care get their two-year degrees. And unlike many programs for former foster youth, there are no age limits.

New HHS poverty guidelines mean that even for a single adult working FT year-round, the federal minimum wage is officially a poverty wage: aspe.hhs.gov/topics/pover...

Chart titled: "The burden of poverty falls disproportionately over children of color: Child supplemental poverty rates by race and ethnicity, 2021–2023"

In 2023, Black, Hispanic, & American Indian and Alaska Native children were 3x more likely to fall below the poverty line. Realizing Dr. King’s dream requires recognizing that the brunt of economic disparities falls largely on children of color, and Black children in particular.

Child poverty bankrupts Dr. King’s dream for economic justice Children, poverty, and economic freedom were at the heart of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963 when he spoke before more than 200,000 demonstrators at the March on Washingt...

This Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, remember that children, poverty, and economic freedom were at the heart of Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. More than 60 years later, child poverty persists—especially for children of color.

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Starting next week, EPI's team of economists & lawyers will track how the Trump admin, Congress, and the courts are affecting workers' quality of life.

Sign up for Federal Policy Watch to stay informed!

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Forced prison labor in the “Land of the Free”: Rooted in Racism and Economic Exploitation: Spotlight Summary: From fighting wildfires to toiling in the kitchens of some of the country’s most popular food franchises, incarcerated workers perform vital functions across the United States and produce bil...

From fighting wildfires to toiling in fast-food kitchens, incarcerated workers perform vital functions and produce billions of dollars in value for public and private sectors/Yet they are paid between 13 & 52 cents an hour—if at all—and are excluded from basic rights. www.epi.org/publication/...

Want to highlight a fascinating and useful new report and tool from my colleague @hilwething.bsky.social at @epi.org. It's about calculating the fiscal externalities of school vouchers.

Don't know what that means? Hop in, let's talk about it!!

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The minimum wage just went up in 21 states, increasing the pay of 9.2 million workers by a total of $5.7 billion, according to @epi.org.

The federal minimum wage continues to sit at $7.25 as it has since 2009.

Trump can bend Biden’s industrial policy to suit him America appears on the cusp of an era of large-scale domestic investment in areas from semiconductors to energy

Oren Cass gets Trump--the Biden industrial policies he railed against will provide a [potential] foundation for continued industrial expansion under Trump. Though he disingenuously characterizes CHIPS and IRA as Keynesian demand-side economic policy. 1/4 #industrialpolicy

10 Inequality Victories in 2024 Our year-end review of 10 of the most inspiring inequality wins, from union drives to fair taxes to consumer protection.

In 2024:

-VW and Amazon workers won big union elections

-Red states raised the min wage and approved paid leave via ballot measure

-The Kroger-Albertsons merger, which would have raised grocery prices, was blocked

Huge wins for working people that we can build from in 2025.

The Productivity–Pay Gap The huge gap between rising incomes at the top and stagnating pay for the rest of us shows that workers are no longer benefiting from their rising productivity. Before 1979, worker pay and productivit...

As we begin the new year, let’s remember what we all should be fighting for: A fair economy.

“A large majority of U.S. working families could have had significantly higher incomes today if policymakers had made different choices.”

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