Guruprasad Sowle, the president and cofounder of Indus International Research Foundation and an advisory board member at World Trade Center Utah, said he expects the policy to eliminate “average workers” from the pipeline.
It will also prevent Indian-based staffing companies that funnel employees to the U.S. from misusing the American legal immigration system and violating the wage rules, as the Economic Policy Institute found in 2021.
Deseret News
November 17, 2025
Progressive groups have been calling to squeeze more revenue out of the wealthy for years now.
But the Economic Policy Institute is putting a bit of a new twist on that argument in a report released today.
The group is prodding policymakers to raise taxes on the rich simply on the merits, in no small part so that regular taxpayers can have more trust in the system.
“A lot of people assume the public is anti-tax. But they might just be very annoyed because they think the wealthy are avoiding their obligations,” said Josh Bivens of EPI, the author of the report, adding that standalone tax increases “just improve the faith in the political process.”
Politico Morning TAx
November 17, 2025
Workers nationwide may be losing out on more than $50 billion a year because of wage theft, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
The Olympian
November 17, 2025
Elise Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, expected a significant bounce back in economic activity that was throttled by the shutdown.
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She’s tracked unemployment insurance claims data generated by the states, which has remained available through the federal government shutdown.
And some spots, such as Washington, D.C., are seeing elevated levels of unemployment insurance claims.
Gould also noted reports of more layoffs in the private sector.
Sinclair Broadcast Group
November 17, 2025
The number of drivers has increased by 2,300, or 1.1%, since last year, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning research group. But there are still 21,200 fewer bus drivers than there were in 2019, a decline of 9.5%.
The 74
November 17, 2025
A study this year by the Economic Policy Institute found that the cost of child care now exceeds the price of college tuition in 38 states and the District of Columbia.
Time Magazine
November 17, 2025
Why American worker productivity increased 62% from 1979 to 2020, while wages rose only 17.5%—and where that surplus value actually goes
SOURCES:
Economic Policy Institute productivity reports
Financial Data Guru (YouTube)
November 17, 2025
A study from the Economic Policy Institute showed that investments in public transportation not only drove down crime, but also reduced economic inequality.
November 17, 2025
The Economic Policy Institute estimates the average annual cost of infant care in Ohio is $17,071.
Richland Source
November 17, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute analysis of the August jobs report, job openings have been holding steady since July, but both hires and quits edged lower, while layoffs and discharges stayed about the same. [6] The low rate of hiring is similar to that right after the Great Recession.
MoneyWise
November 17, 2025