Similar data from the Economic Policy Institute puts state and local government employment at 2.3% below pre-pandemic levels, “as state agencies, school districts, and local governments have struggled to fill vacancies.”
The Washington Post Jobs
January 13, 2025
The list of the companies who make the most use of the H-1B visa is topped by Amazon, with well-known tech and consulting giants making up the majority of the list, including Infosys, Google, Meta, IBM and Deloitte in the top 10, with Accenture, Microsoft, Apple, Intel, EY and Goldman Sachs not far behind, according to a 2023 report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). Musk’s Tesla sits at 27, below Walmart (25) and above Cisco (28) and Nvidia (30).
Newsweek
January 13, 2025
Part of the growth in health care jobs is also tied to rising population and a burgeoning number of retirees, said Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute.
CNBC
January 13, 2025
“There were some concerns about the Black unemployment rate going up,” said Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, referring to November’s uptick. “It’s still significantly higher than for other groups — and that’s still a concern — but nothing in this report jumps out as particularly problematic.”
CNBC
January 13, 2025
With 21 states and 48 cities and counties implementing minimum wage increases at the start of 2025—according to the nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank Economic Policy Institute—payroll budgets may already be pinched, limiting funds available for merit-based raises.
HR Executive
January 13, 2025
Cities and counties have been slowly raising their minimum wages as well — sometimes considerably higher than their state’s. The Economic Policy Institute has been documenting some of the more local wage floors.
Here are the localities with the highest minimum wages according to EPI — they’re all in Washington (where the minimum wage is $16.66) and California (where the minimum wage is $16.50). All minimums are close to or over $20 per hour. Some localities have different wage tiers depending on the size of the company.
CNBC
January 13, 2025
The raise in Ohio will affect more than 300,000 people, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan organization that advocates for workers. The institute’s research shows that almost 90 percent of people benefitting from all state increases this year are adults, 58 percent are women and 20 percent are in families living below the federal poverty line.
Signal Cleveland
January 13, 2025
San Jose Mercury News
January 13, 2025
Iowa isn’t the only state that has rolled back child labor regulations, but it has made the most extreme changes, according to Jennifer Sherer at the Economic Policy Institute. Other states, meanwhile, are responding to the reports of children being exploited, killed, and injured working in dangerous jobs like meatpacking.
“We have states all over the country that are beginning to take action and respond to the child labor crisis that they’re seeing in their states and their industries,” she said. “States as diverse in geography and politics as Alabama, Colorado and Virginia all increased their penalty amounts for child labor violations just this past year in their legislatures.”
Iowa Starting Line
January 13, 2025