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• New year, higher wages

  …billion in additional earnings, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. This marks one of the largest-ever state minimum…[paywall].

  Forbes | January 15, 2025
• Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders delivers 2025 State of the State address

  The average adult in Northwest Arkansas spends $337 a month on groceries, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Eliminating the grocery tax would save them 42 cents a month.

  40/29 News | January 15, 2025
• Biden bids farewell from Oval Office as Trump looms over his legacy

  “You cannot reverse four and a half decades of rising inequality with a few years of absolute good economic outcomes and policy changes,” said Heidi Shierholz, president of the Economic Policy Institute. “But one of the most fundamental things they did was provide relief recovery at the scale that was needed to generate a strong jobs recovery.”

  Reuters | January 15, 2025
• The Memo That Hijacked American Democracy — And How Democrats Can Take It Back

  There are a few left-leaning think tanks and policy outfits like Public Citizen, NAACP, ACLU, Center for American Progress, Economic Policy Institute, Roosevelt Institute, Demos, and the Century Foundation. None of these, however, have levels of funding, inter-agency coordination, or integration with the Democratic Party that even begins to approximate the list of conservative organizations above.

  Hartmann Report | January 15, 2025
• ‘The pipelines are drying up’: Why teacher salaries are catastrophic for the profession

  In a recent report for the Economic Policy Instituteand the Center for Economic and Policy Research,…[paywall].

  The Boston Globe | January 15, 2025
• TEACHER VOICE: Teaching can mean never-ending work days and nights, and we deserve to be paid for it

  A study by the Economic Policy Institute found that, if the Fair Labor Standards Act protection were extended to teachers, almost a quarter of us make so little that we would be eligible for the overtime pay.

  The Hechinger Report | January 15, 2025
• H-1B visas power the tech industry. But experts say that’s not necessarily because of a talent gap.

  Some of the roles H-1B workers are hired to fill also involve less complicated jobs, like product testing, said Ronil Hira, an associate political science professor at Howard University and a research associate with the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. These roles don’t necessarily meet the visa program’s intended goal of outsourcing roles that require unique skills. 

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  Tech companies have also laid off hundreds of employees in recent years while continuing to sponsor new H-1B visas. An analysis by the Economic Policy Institute found that the top 30 companies hiring the most H-1B workers hired 34,000 new H-1B employees in 2022 but laid off at least 85,000 workers that year and in early 2023. 

  CBS Moneywatch | January 15, 2025

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