Daniel Costa, director of immigration at the Economic Policy Institute, noted that despite increased scrutiny during the Trump administration, the H-1B cap was still met every year.
Axios
January 14, 2022
Monique Morrissey, economist at the Economic Policy Institute, joins Yahoo Finance Live to discuss the state of the workforce now that middle-aged and older Americans have retired during the pandemic and how they could face age discrimination when they try to return to work.
Yahoo Finance
January 14, 2022
Around 29% of White workers are able to work from home, according to an Economic Policy Institute study in 2020. But fewer than one in five Black workers and roughly one in six Hispanic workers can work from home.
CNN Business
January 14, 2022
“Even though we had record quits in November, hires were greater than quits in every major industry,” tweeted Heidi Shierholz, chief economist at the Economic Policy Institute. “Job-quitters are taking other jobs, not dropping out of the labor force…This is good news!”
CNN Business
January 14, 2022
To catch up with population growth, the economy needs 5 million more jobs, said economist Elise Gould, of the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank. Before the recession, jobs were growing faster than population. To reach levels where employment would have been, had pre-pandemic job growth trends continued, the United States would have to add 8 million jobs, Gould said. And that will only get harder as federal stimulus programs run out.
Washington Post
January 14, 2022
The strike began on Wednesday, and workers will be out picketing until February 2. It’s the latest group of workers to take to the picket line as thousands across the country fight for better conditions — a moment that the labor movement is hoping to build upon. Despite union approval ratings being at their highest since 1965, union membership has been declining for decades, which the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute attributes to increasingly weakened labor laws that allow employers to host mandatory anti-union meetings and replace striking workers.
Business Insider
January 14, 2022
The strike began on Wednesday, and workers will be out picketing until February 2. It’s the latest group of workers to take to the picket line as thousands across the country fight for better conditions — a moment that the labor movement is hoping to build upon. Despite union approval ratings being at their highest since 1965, union membership has been declining for decades, which the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute attributes to increasingly weakened labor laws that allow employers to host mandatory anti-union meetings and replace striking workers.
Business Insider
January 14, 2022
The strike began on Wednesday, and workers will be out picketing until February 2. It’s the latest group of workers to take to the picket line as thousands across the country fight for better conditions — a moment that the labor movement is hoping to build upon. Despite union approval ratings being at their highest since 1965, union membership has been declining for decades, which the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute attributes to increasingly weakened labor laws that allow employers to host mandatory anti-union meetings and replace striking workers.
Business Insider
January 14, 2022
The strike began on Wednesday, and workers will be out picketing until February 2. It’s the latest group of workers to take to the picket line as thousands across the country fight for better conditions — a moment that the labor movement is hoping to build upon. Despite union approval ratings being at their highest since 1965, union membership has been declining for decades, which the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute attributes to increasingly weakened labor laws that allow employers to host mandatory anti-union meetings and replace striking workers.
Business Insider
January 14, 2022