According to H1B Grader and the Economic Policy Institute, the following companies utilize the program the most:
Benzinga (via Yahoo! Finance)
September 29, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute, one durable manufacturing job creates 7.4 indirect jobs.
Fleet Maintenance
September 29, 2025
“If there’s some level of ultimate take-home pay that workers know they will accept to take a job, or to stay in a job … the wages needed to meet that level will have just gone down,” Economic Policy Institute president Heidi Shierholz told PBS [6].
MoneyWise
September 29, 2025
The tech industry in San Francisco and Silicon Valley has long relied on the H-1B program. The top 30 corporate sponsors — which account for about one-third to one-half of all the program’s visas — are predominantly tech companies, according to Daniel Costa, director of immigration law and policy research at the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank that has closely scrutinized the program. Many of those companies are either based here or have local offices.
San Francisco Examiner
September 29, 2025
There has been a steep decline in the immigrant workforce under Trump’s aggressive deportation agenda. Vice President JD Vance and other conservatives have said the exodus of foreign-born workers can explain the weaker job growth, but that it creates more employment opportunities for native-born Americans. The Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, argued Trump’s job market has been worse for U.S.-born workers, pointing to BLS data showing an increased unemployment rate among this group.
NBC News
September 29, 2025
Business Chief
September 29, 2025
H-1B workers generally make on average in Chicago $172,720, according to ZipRecruiter. But the pro-labor union Economic Policy Institute found that outsourced employees in particular are underpaid, undercutting the labor market for American workers.
“Thanks to (the Department of Labor’s) failure to enforce the wage laws or close the outsourcing loophole,” the institute reported, “DOL is in effect subsidizing the offshoring of high-paying U.S. jobs in information technology that once served as a pathway to the middle class, including for workers of color.”
Chicago Tribune
September 29, 2025
This fall, SPN teams will take on projects with the Atlantic Council, the Pulte Institute for Global Development at Notre Dame, the National League of Cities, Freedom Network USA, the Economic Policy Institute, the Indiana Immigration Project, and the Denver mayor’s office. Additional teams will study education policy, environmental policy, public health, immigration and financial literacy, along with democratic engagement in Chicago.
Notre Dame OBserver
September 29, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), the typical worker in the residential long-term care industry earns $15.22 per hour; the typical worker across all sectors earns $20.07. Access to benefits, such as health insurance or employer-sponsored retirement plans, is also less common among working caregivers.
Investopedia
September 29, 2025
Some solutions would require congressional action. Lawmakers have proposed fixes like requiring employers to look harder for domestic applicants before recruiting outside the country, or banning layoffs of workers who are replaced by visa holders. They have also considered more targeted measures to crack down on wage suppression by outsourcing companies.
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The White House said the fee would ensure that employers only submit petitions for workers they need so much that they’re willing to pay an extra $100,000 to get them. But the employers that profit the most from H-1B workers — including workers who are relatively low-paid — would still have an incentive to request visas.
“If they keep the H-1B worker for six years, it’s a worthwhile investment,” said Daniel Costa, director of immigration law and policy research at the labor-aligned Economic Policy Institute.
New York Times
September 29, 2025