Research from the Economic Policy Institute demonstrates how the H-1B visa program is exploited to depress wages, with a majority of H-1B recipients receiving below market wages, and widespread wage theft reported throughout the tech industry, with at least $95 million underpaid to thousands of workers in 2020. “The cumulative loss of wages to workers in the United States—including both migrant workers and workers who are U.S. citizens—likely totals in the billions of dollars, just from the abuses of the H-1B program by one company,” HCL, which “contract[s] workers to such U.S. employers as Cisco, Disney, Google,” among other major corporations.
The American Conservative
November 17, 2025
Just last year, leading H-1B visa researcher Ron Hira published a study for the Economic Policy Institute that reviewed wage data from HCL Technologies, India’s third-largest outsourcing firm, whose clients include Microsoft, Disney, Boeing, FedEx, Google, T-Mobile, and Keurig Dr. Pepper, among others.
Breitbart
November 17, 2025
Similar legislation has been passed in at least 25 states, including Arizona, Louisiana, and Texas, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Miami Herald
November 17, 2025
The Economic Policy Institute published a 2020 study showing that 60 percent of H-1B workers received wages below the local median wage for their profession. The study also found that the top 30 companies requesting foreign workers accounted for more than 25 percent of the requests.
Tennessee Star
November 17, 2025
According to a report from the Economic Policy Institute, wage theft is a pervasive problem that impacts millions of workers annually. Between 2021 and 2023, the U.S. Department of Labor, state agencies, and class action lawsuits recovered more than $1.5 billion in stolen wages for workers.
Bon Appetit Magazine
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%.
Pew Stateline
November 17, 2025
Daniel Costa, an immigration policy researcher at the Economic Policy Institute, says that the H-2A changes appear aimed at replacing American workers with seasonal foreign workers. Speaking to Investigate Midwest, he summarized the policy as “We want workers but we don’t want people.”
The Preamble
November 17, 2025
Chief executives in America are not just very wealthy; they are in a different league, being paid more than seven times as much as the top 0.1 per cent of earners, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
The Times
November 17, 2025
The Economic Policy Institute shares, “Paid sick leave laws have passed at state and local levels in record numbers over the last few years. These laws improve public health by reducing the spread of illness, and their costs to businesses are extremely modest—generally requiring no measurable change to business practices.”
YourTango
November 17, 2025
An analysis by the Economic Policy Institute noted that federal agencies sent layoff notices around October 10 to roughly 4,200 employees across seven agencies.
Newsweek
November 17, 2025