According to the Economic Policy Institute, 60% of the H-1B positions in the fiscal year 2019 were at a wage lower than the local average wage. Increasingly, H-1Bs are used less to secure hard-to-find competencies than they are to subvert the American worker market to get foreign labor at a discount.
Detroit Free Press
June 25, 2020
According to a study of one bank’s arbitration program completed by the Economic Policy Institute, individual arbitration results in the average employee-claimant paying the bank US$11,000.[11] As such, the employees’ incentive to attempt to gain an advantage on a group-wide scale should not be underestimated. Where the average claimant can end up owing US$11,000 in some contexts, it is no surprise that employees and employees’ counsel are looking for ways to harness the negotiating power of mass arbitration.
The National Law Review
June 25, 2020
Coupled with other coronavirus relief measures, the extra $600 in enhanced benefits has helped many Americans stay afloat — and even save more than usual — throughout the pandemic, with some economists calling it the “best” part of the economic response to the coronavirus. The $600 increase has been “one of the most effective parts of the CARES Act on both humanitarian and economic grounds,” writes Heidi Shierholz, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank.
CNBC
June 25, 2020
“In case the administration hasn’t noticed, the immigration system is already shut down, almost entirely, as a result of the pandemic,” said Daniel Costa, an attorney with the Economic Policy Institute in Washington.
“Considering the number of new coronavirus infections continues to increase rapidly in the United States and abroad, it’s difficult to imagine the immigration system opening back up anytime soon,” Costa wrote in an analysis published Tuesday.
“Would any of the banned visas have been issued in these programs before the end of the year absent this proclamation? I’m not convinced they would have.”
Voice of America
June 25, 2020
“There’s still this two tracks of this ongoing hemorrhaging of jobs while we also see a lot of people getting rehired,” said Heidi Shierholz, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute.
The Wall Street Journal
June 25, 2020
The bottom line: “We don’t have a word for being in a depressed economy that’s growing,” says Heidi Shierholz, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute.
Axios
June 25, 2020
“We’ve all being saying it’s July 31st, but it’s not,” says Heidi Shierholz, senior economist and director of policy for the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
USA Today
June 25, 2020