Publications

This paper shows that immigration has a small positive effect on wages for native-born workers, including less educated workers.

EPI's Senior International Economist Robert Scott says that Warren Buffett's plan for balancing the trade deficit is as relevant today as when it was first proposed in 2003.

Policy makers seeking ways to balance a large and growing U.S. trade deficit should revisit a plan Warren Buffett proposed six years ago.

There were 13.2 million more unemployed workers than job openings in October, or 6.3 job seekers per available job.

Time after time, the labor-rights provisions of trade deals like NAFTA and CAFTA fail the workers they were designed to protect.  EPI's new Briefing Paper, Sustaining Workers' Bargaining Power in an Age of Globalization, released as part of its Agenda for Shared Prosperity, lays out a plan to remedy this problem.

In the midst of a global recession, subsidies to Chinese glass are increasing. This new EPI report documents the explosive growth of China's glass and glass products industry and the government subsidies that have bolstered this growth from 2004 to 2008.

A well-designed climate change policy can support the economic recovery and ensure that U.S. manufacturing comes back stronger and cleaner than before. Poorly designed policies, however, could slow or halt the recovery of significant segments of U.S. manufacturing and could even lead to increased global production of greenhouse gases. One of the keys to achieving these goals is to include a border adjustment mechanism to help stem carbon leakage.