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• Trump’s deportations could cost 6M jobs, report finds

  President Donald Trump’s deportation plans could cost nearly 6 million jobs, according to an analysis released Thursday.

  If successful, Trump’s goal of deporting 4 million people over four years will cost jobs held by both immigrants and U.S.-born workers, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.

  EPI’s analysis found California, Florida, New York and Texas will have the highest number of job losses, because of larger immigrant populations in those states.

  Stateline | July 11, 2025
• Arkansas Department of Education creates searchable child care provider database

  In 2023, child care for infants in Arkansas cost only 1.8% less than four-year public college tuition and 22.5% less than the average rent cost, according to a study released earlier this year by the Economic Policy Institute.

  Mountain Home Observer | July 11, 2025
• Federal threats to privatize U.S. Postal Service continue

  The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) warns a move toward privatization would “harm the national economy while devastating many vulnerable households and communities, notably homebound seniors, people in rural areas, and residents of low-income urban neighborhoods,” while giving competitors a windfall for shedding those obligations.

  In EPI’s report, “The War Against the Postal Service,” the research group also noted, “Career jobs in the Postal Service are good jobs for workers without bachelor’s degrees. Postal workers are better compensated than many other workers with similar education, years of experience, and hours worked. … The corporations that stand to gain will do so not because they are more efficient than the Postal Service, but because they can shed public service obligations and pay their workers less.”

  Chicago Crusader | July 11, 2025
• Black Women’s Equal Pay Day Requires Equity in Policies

  Chandra Childers, a senior policy and economic analyst at the Economic Policy Institute, recently outlined the impact of Trump’s cuts and public sector disinvestment on Black women. 

  “The public sector includes workers in federal, state, and local government that we all rely on to educate children across the region, care for sick and elderly family members, ensure food and water are safe to consume, provide public transportation and sanitation services, and ensure access to a wide range of other public services,” wrote Childers. “The decline in public-sector job quality across the South disproportionately harms Black workers, especially Black women, their families, and communities.”

  NewsOne | July 11, 2025
• How Trump’s immigration policies could threaten Social Security

  While undocumented immigrants greatly contribute to the Social Security system, it isn’t an uplifting talking point for immigrant advocates since these workers don’t get any benefits themselves, said Daniel Costa, director of Immigration Law and Policy Research at the Economic Policy Institute, in a 2019 Marketplace interview. 

  Marketplace | July 11, 2025
• Trump Mass Deportations Will Cause ‘Immense Pain’ for Workers and Destroy Millions of Jobs: Report

  If President Donald Trump succeeds at deporting millions of people over the next four years, his administration will be responsible for destroying millions of jobs and inflicting “immense pain” on both U.S.-born and immigrant workers.

  That’s according to a report published Thursday by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), which bases its analysis on the Trump administration’s privately stated goal of deporting at least 1 million immigrants during the Republican president’s first year back in the White House.

  Common Dreams | July 11, 2025
• Trump’s deportations could cost 115,000 jobs in Pennsylvania, report finds

  If successful, Trump’s goal of deporting 4 million people over four years will cost jobs held by both immigrants and U.S.-born workers, according to the Economic Policy Institute.

  EPI’s analysis found California, Florida, New York and Texas will have the highest number of job losses, because of larger immigrant populations in those states. According to the analysis, Pennsylvania would see 65,00 immigrant job losses and 50,000 U.S.-born job losses.

  Pennsylvania Capital-Star | July 11, 2025

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