Rigging the numbers would be difficult. Hundreds of economists and statisticians are involved in compiling the monthly jobs report, and they follow “transparent, well-established methodologies,’’ Heidi Shierholz, the Labor Department’s chief economist in the Obama administration, wrote in a commentary Friday.
Associated Press
August 13, 2025
The Economic Policy Institute noted last fall there were 12.2 percent fewer school bus drivers nationally than there were in September 2019. And wages had fallen 2.8 percent since 2019 as well.
The Chronicle-Telegram
August 13, 2025
Naples Daily News
August 13, 2025
Although actual enforcement of this requirement is spotty, the Economic Policy Institute estimates that employers spend more than $400 million annually on these union-busting consultants, also known as “persuaders.”
Orlando Weekly
August 13, 2025
Corporate CEOs make 344 times as much as a typical worker, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Baltimore Beat
August 13, 2025
Data from the Economic Policy Institute shows that immigrant workers and business owners generate $100 billion in economic output in Pennsylvania. That includes Main Street business owners, chefs, software developers and physicians.
York Daily Record (PA)
August 13, 2025
The ways the Trump administration is spending our tax dollars are horrifying on many levels. One way is to build camps to detain immigrants. The Economic Policy Institute explains that the “Big Beautiful Bill” gave over $140 billion to ICE, up from $30 billion in the past. $45 billion is to build detention centers, up from $3.4 billion in the past. They will probably be built by Core Civic and Geo Group, both for-profit prison businesses.
The Herald Times
August 13, 2025
School districts across the country have been struggling with a bus driver shortage for years. As of last September there were about 12% fewer school bus drivers on the road than in 2019, according to the Economic Policy Institute. The nonprofit cited low pay as a key factor.
WXII News
August 13, 2025
Jennifer Sherer, deputy director of state policy and research for the Economic Policy Institute and the report’s co-author, pointed to a new Colorado law expanding the state’s authority to penalize employers who steal wages from their workers and to make those violations public. She said it is important for states to crack down on these sorts of abuses.
Public News Service
August 13, 2025
Heidi Shierholz, who served as the chief economist at the Department of Labor under President Barack Obama and now runs the nonpartisan labor think tank the Economic Policy Institute, joins us to talk about the BLS, the important data it compiles, and what the hell a revision is.
Crooked Media What A Day Podcast
August 13, 2025