“Antoni has repeatedly and unfairly attacked the agency he’d be set to run, contributed to the right-wing Project 2025 policy blueprint, and in his role at the Heritage Foundation has stretched the truth about the economy to make partisan political claims,” said Josh Bivens, chief economist at the Economic Policy Institute.
Common Dreams
August 13, 2025
The male Gen-Z worker has, on average, had a higher rate of unemployment since the pandemic, Business Insider contends, and it boils down to the way young female workers are dominant in a few key areas of the job market. Elise Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, explained to the news outlet that right now the hiring situation means it may be “tougher for men who are looking for jobs where there’s just not a whole lot of hiring,” partly because “employers are holding steady with the workers they have, and workers are also holding steady in their roles.”
Inc.
August 13, 2025
In December 2023, the Economic Policy Institute released a report on disparities between wage growth across different income levels. For those in the bottom 90%, wages grew just 32.9% from 1979 to 2022. For those in the top 1%, wages grew 171.7%. For those in the top 0.1%, wages grew 344.4%.
Investopedia
August 13, 2025
Features interview with Valerie Wilson
NPR 1A
August 13, 2025
Daniel Costa, a lawyer at the Economic Policy Institute, said there’s concern that removing the “temporary” status on the visas could risk creating a massive class of workers who are “permanently temporary.”
These workers could be trapped year after year in a dependent visa status, unable to change jobs, and lacking the full rights of other workers, Costa said.
Minnesota Star Tribune
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
Economists have warned that the sharp drop in immigrants coming into the U.S., and Trump’s aggressive deportation policies, could have detrimental effects on the country’s economy.
The Economic Policy Institute wrote in July that Trump’s deportation efforts will reduce jobs for immigrants and U.S.-born workers alike, as deportations will “[threaten] the ability of employers to generate revenue and pay for business expenses like rent, machinery, and even the labor of any remaining workers.”
Time Magazine
August 13, 2025
“Today’s jobs report is what entering a recession looks like,” wrote Josh Bivens, chief economist at the labor-oriented Economic Policy Institute, on Friday. “Could we pull up? Sure. But if we look back and end up dating an official recession that starts 3-6 months from now, this is what it would look like today — rapid softening/deterioration in the labor market.”
LA Times
August 13, 2025
“The president’s belief that the BLS commissioner personally ‘produced’ the jobs numbers is preposterous and shows a complete misunderstanding of how government statistical agencies operate,” noted Heidi Shierholz, the president of the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute and a former chief economist at the Department of Labor, in a post about McEntarfer’s firing.
She added, “These data are the product of careful work by hundreds of expert economists, statisticians and civil servants following transparent, well-established methodologies.”
CBS Moneywatch
August 13, 2025
“To me, today’s jobs report is what entering a recession looks like,” Josh Bivens, chief economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, wrote after the Friday report.
CNBC
August 13, 2025