These effects are reshaping the local economy and call into question whether tariffs are achieving their stated goal of boosting U.S. jobs and manufacturing. Joining us on AirTalk today for more is Adam S. Hersh, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, and Ching Fu, Meet Fresh General Manager.
LAist
September 8, 2025
Elise Gould, the director of health policy research at the Economic Policy Institute, similarly noted that “there have… been sustained losses over recent months in manufacturing, construction, and mining,” in recent months, which she said was “an indication that Trump’s blue-collar renaissance is clearly not happening.”
Common Dreams
September 5, 2025
President Donald Trump has also slashed 300,000 jobs from the federal workforce, making the social safety net cuts felt even more acutely. While many of these workers may not participate in these programs, their decreased spending is expected to ripple through their communities, according to Kyle Moore, an economist with the Economic Policy Institute.
SNAP and Medicaid are intended to kick in during economic downturns, softening a crash. But increased work requirements do the opposite, Moore adds.
“In fact, it’s taking away crucial help from families and children which limits their ability to participate in the labor market.”
Politico Women Rule newsletter
September 5, 2025
According to Economic Policy Institute data, the pay for chief executives at major companies in the U.S. rose by 1,085% from 1978 to 2023, with salaries … [paywall].
Fortune
September 5, 2025
But the recovery from the pandemic was uniquely fast, Valerie Wilson, a labor economist and the director of the program on race, ethnicity, and the economy at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, said. There was also a robust policy response at the time to address Americans who were struggling and out of work.
This time, the circumstances feel more uncertain.
“It’s difficult to predict whether we can recover quickly,” Wilson said. “That will depend on how quickly Congress moves to counteract the recession.”
Yahoo Finance
September 5, 2025
Lynn Rhinehart, a senior fellow at the Economic Policy Institute and former general counsel at the AFL-CIO, the country’s largest labour union federation, said that Trump’s executive orders marked the beginning of a longer campaign against organised labour.
“Trump’s real motivation is clear – the executive order is a retaliatory action against federal employee unions who are standing in the way of Trump’s union-busting agenda,” she said.
That agenda doesn’t stop with executive orders. Trump fired NLRB chair Gwynne Wilcox in January, saying that her opinions had “unduly disfavoured” employers. The decision – which Wilcox continues to fight in the courts – leaves the country’s top labour watchdog without the quorum it needs to hear cases and issue decisions.
France 24
September 5, 2025
In April, Trump said that since the beginning of NAFTA, the U.S. lost 90,000 factories, reiterating the need for American reshoring. While the figure matched what was used in a 2020 report from the Economic Policy Institute, revised Census data used in that report found a net loss of 70,500 manufacturing facilities between 1997 to 2022, CBS News first reported. About a quarter of those factories had four or fewer workers.
Fortune
September 5, 2025
“It seems likely that the Trump administration will use Friday’s jobs report to continue to argue that their immigration policies are creating job market opportunities for U.S.-born workers, but this claim is false and based on a misreading of data from the household survey,” Ben Zipperer, senior economist at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, wrote in a blog.
“If anything, the job market for U.S.-born workers is worse so far in 2025 than it was in preceding years.”
NBC News
September 5, 2025
These effects are reshaping the local economy and call into question whether tariffs are achieving their stated goal of boosting U.S. jobs and manufacturing. Joining us on AirTalk today for more is Adam S. Hersh, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, and Ching Fu, Meet Fresh General Manager.
LAist
September 3, 2025