“If he wanted to talk about the importance of unionization, he could have, over and over again,” said Heidi Shierholz, director of policy at the left-leaning Economic Policy institute. “And over and over again, he chose not to. I do think that does speak to where he is on traditional collective bargaining.”
The Atlantic
February 17, 2017
Navarro is not necessarily alone in his viewpoint — in fact, he is joined by some on the left. Josh Bivens, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, has also argued that trade deficits hurt U.S. jobs. “The logic is simple — exports boost demand for U.S. output while imports reduce demand for U.S. output. … Trade deficits are the mirror image of capital inflows into the U.S. economy, and there are times when these capital inflows can reduce domestic interest rates and boost economic activity, providing an offset to the demand-drag caused by trade flows.” Yet, Bivens says, “today is not one of those times,” since interest rates in the United States are already so low that reducing them further would do very little to boost growth.
The Washington Post
February 17, 2017
President Trump had signed an executive order curtailing immigration, and anxieties were high. According to the Economic Policy Institute, a research organization in Washington, about 38 percent of nannies in New York State are non-naturalized immigrants…The National Domestic Workers Alliance, which organizes domestic workers, estimates that there are close to 17,500 nannies in New York State, based on figures from the Economic Policy Institute.
The New York Times
February 17, 2017
“If all immigrants were just to disappear from the U.S. workforce tomorrow, that would have a tremendous negative impact on the economy,” said Daniel Costa, the director of immigration law and policy research at the Economic Policy Institute, an economic research think tank based in Washington, D.C. “Immigrants are overrepresented in a lot of occupations in both low- and high-skilled jobs,” he explained. “You’d feel an impact and loss in many, many different occupations and industries, from construction and landscape to finance and IT.”
ABC News
February 17, 2017
Coincidentally, Trump announced Acosta on the same day the “Day Without Immigrants” protest was held. On Thursday, immigrant workers nationwide stayed home to highlight U.S. immigrants’ economic contributions. Several restaurants around the country have halted their services in solidarity with the protest. Immigrants are responsible for about 14.7% of total U.S. economic output, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Mic
February 17, 2017
Paying it off won’t be easy. Median savings for U.S. households nearest retirement age has dropped 32% in the past decade to $14,500, according to an analysis of federal data by the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank.
The Wall Street Journal
February 17, 2017
On today’s show, we talk to Heidi Shierholz (a senior economist at EPI and the former chief economist of the Labor Department under Obama/Perez administration) about Andrew Puzder’s withdrawal as the labor secretary nominee and what comes next for this appointment. Then, an interview with Mike Mishak (reporter with The Center for Public Integrity) about big oil.
KPFA
February 17, 2017
Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson looks at the issue with political economist Gordon Lafer. Lafer is an associate professor at the University of Oregon’s Labor Education and Research Center, a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute and author of the forthcoming book “The One Percent Solution: How Corporations Are Remaking America One State at a Time.”
Here & Now
February 17, 2017
Public school teachers in New Jersey make less money than other full-time employees, according to a report released this week by the Economic Policy Institute. But the disparity is at least partly due to the fact teachers overall work fewer weeks per year than other professions. Teachers also get more of their total compensation as benefits than private-sector workers, although the gap is closing. According to the report, developed using U.S. Census data, the average annual wage of teachers in New Jersey from 2012-14 was $68,301, compared with $82,223 for other full-time employees, or a 17 percent difference.
Press of Atlantic City
February 17, 2017
His nomination revealed “the complete scorn Trump actually has for workers,” Heidi Shierholz, a policy director and economist at the progressive Economic Policy Institute, told The Huffington Post… With someone like Puzder leading the department, you would have seen years of progress on raising wages and improving benefits like paid sick leave and parental leave grind to a halt, and even roll backward, Shierholz said.
The Huffington Post
February 16, 2017