The analysis drew on data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Economic Policy Institute, and industry groups, with all numbers adjusted to 2025 dollars. While not everyone’s version of the American dream looks the same, Investopedia’s survey showed that most people consider these eight categories essential.
Realtor
September 24, 2025
“The H-1B program was initially created to help U.S. companies fill rare, high-skilled roles when American expertise was unavailable. However, in practice, it has become a pathway for cheap foreign labor. According to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), in 2022, the top 30 H-1B employers brought in 34,000 new visa workers even as they laid off at least 85,000 Americans,” Joondeph wrote. The new fee “is meant to give employers pause. Is the skill truly so scarce that it justifies paying $100,000 annually to Washington, D.C., in addition to salary and benefits?”
Tangle
September 24, 2025
By and large, life improved for Black Americans following the civil rights movement of the 1960s, according to The Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, which says Black Americans are better off now when it comes to health wealth and educational attainment than they were then, but their incarceration rates rose substantially from 1968 to 2016.
The Keene Sentinel
September 24, 2025
Federal enforcement agencies and policy experts argue that the current H-1B system enables widespread wage theft and creates unfair labor conditions that harm both American and foreign workers. The Economic Policy Institute has documented how companies intentionally underpay H-1B workers compared to similarly situated American employees, calling for immediate investigations and prosecutions under fraud statutes.
LA Times
September 24, 2025
And in 2023, the pro-labor think tank Economic Policy Institute noted “the H-1B’s biggest users are companies that have laid off tens of thousands of workers.
Raleigh News and Observer
September 24, 2025
A study from the Economic Policy Institute showed that 60 percent of H-1B workers made below the local median wages for their industries. The study also found that Amazon, Microsoft, Walmart, Google, Apple, and IBM were among the top employers of H-1B workers.
Daily Caller
September 24, 2025
In a 2020 report, the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute found that 60% of the H-1B positions certified by U.S. Labor Department are assigned wages below the median for the job.
Newsmax
September 24, 2025
However, the H-1B program has not been without criticism. A 2020 study by the Economic Policy Institute found that most H-1B employers pay migrant workers below market wages, and Tesla has been specifically accused of using this practice to underpay workers. This is despite the fact that companies that apply for them must attest to paying the worker the same as they would a US counterpart.
Tech Republic
September 24, 2025
While some businesses and think tanks have advocated an expansion of the H-2B visa program, the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute (EPI) is arguing a much different fix to the U.S. labor squeeze.
“The H-2B visa program has ballooned without being fixed,” EPI stated in a new report. “Expanding it to year-round jobs like meatpacking would lower wages and revenue.”
Current H-2B employment, the EPI reported, is nearly 170,000 workers, approximately 2.5 times the original limit of 66,000. Indeed, to solve a 2022 labor crunch, the Biden administrations DHS approved an additional 20,000 H-2B visas.
Meating Place
September 24, 2025
In a 2020 report, the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute found that 60% of the H-1B positions certified by U.S. Labor Department are assigned wages below the median for the job.
Associated Press
September 24, 2025