Excessive deregulation could also create new problems, including pollution that needs to be cleaned up later, among other safety issues, said Adam Hersh, senior economist at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
“Just willy-nilly going in and stripping out regulations is not a recipe for economic success,” he said. Blanket deregulation “is a recipe for transferring the costs of those activities from the business onto other parts of the economy, whether it’s workers, whether it’s consumers, whether it’s the general public.”
Bloomberg
October 14, 2025
Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute and an expert in wage dynamics, told Newsweek that areas such as leisure and hospitality “experienced much faster wage growth” following the pandemic due to the “sheer numbers of jobs lost and the need for employers to scramble to attract and retain workers.” She added that these effects were especially pronounced at the lower end of wage distribution, and for workers who required more “enticement” from employers to return to lower-compensated, face-to-face positions.
Newsweek
October 14, 2025
Trump’s mass deportations will have a ‘devastating’ toll on the economy, according to the Economic Policy Institute non-profit, which based this on a study out of DC.
Daily Mail
October 14, 2025
A 2024 report from the Economic Policy Institute found that government antiwage theft efforts recovered more than $1.5 billion dollars in stolen wages for American workers in only a two-year period, between 2021 and 2023 (6). “Wage theft,” they say, “is pervasive across all industries and income levels in the country.”
MoneyWise
October 14, 2025
Research from the Economic Policy Institute estimatef that a national deportation of 4 million people, as proposed by the Trump administration, could eliminate 6 million jobs nationally, including nearly 50,000 in Oregon.
Public News Service
October 14, 2025
In 2021, years before the H-1B program became the object of political controversy, Economic Policy Institute published its findings that “thousands of skilled migrants with H-1B visas working as subcontractors at well-known corporations like Disney, FedEx, Google, and others appear to have been underpaid by at least $95 million.” The organization went on to note: “Victims include not only the H-1B workers but also the U.S. workers who are either displaced or whose wages and working conditions degrade when employers are allowed to underpay skilled migrant workers with impunity.”
Republican-American
October 14, 2025
According to data from the Economic Policy Institute, there are nearly 85,000 federal workers in North Carolina, most of them working in Cumberland, Wake, Mecklenburg, and Onslow counties.
WUNC
October 14, 2025
While the price tag varies widely, a year’s worth of child care for an infant costs more than in-state college tuition in most of the country, and more than rent in 17 states, according to a January report from the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
The Washington Post
October 14, 2025
A Bloomberg report found these staffing firms often pay lower wages to visa holders and crowd out more qualified candidates. (6) The Economic Policy Institute found that most H-1B employers pay migrant workers below market rates and that many H-1B workers are hesitant to report workplace abuse for fear of losing their visas. (7) That dynamic pushes down wages for local workers by 17% to 34% on average.
MoneyWise
October 14, 2025
A common misconception about immigration is that immigrants are taking jobs from natural-born citizens. According to the Economic Policy Institute, “The share of prime-age U.S.-born individuals with a job is at its highest rate in more than two decades.” This is significant because it disproves the misconception that immigration hurts the hiring of natural-born citizens into the workforce. The Economic Policy Institute further states, “The labor market is absorbing immigrants while simultaneously maintaining record low unemployment rates, which goes against the rhetoric that immigrants take jobs.”
Redwood Bark
October 14, 2025