According to the Economic Policy Institute, infant care in Arizona costs $15,625 annually — well above the $14,215 residents pay to attend Arizona State University.
KJZZ
July 22, 2025
Much of what the Trump administration has done so far through cuts and tariffs has reduced America’s economic resilience and economic dynamism, said Adam Hersh, senior economist at Economic Policy Institute, during the second panel. Broad-based tariffs have thrown businesses into turmoil, while gutting support for federal scientific research and attacking universities where innovation occurs while be costly in the long run, he said.
Although the manufacturing tax scheduled for year’s end was disbanded, the sweeping policy bill creates other issues. “Businesses don’t invest because the cost of capital is low,” he said. They do so because there’s a demand for the products they sell. Just lowering the cost of capital isn’t going to do anything to stimulate investment.”
Institute for Supply Management
July 22, 2025
But with the announcement in March 2023 that the mill was closing, Canton lost its life source, and with it any sense of certainty about its economic future. It became one of more than 60,000 manufacturing hubs that have been wiped off America’s map since the late 1990s. For every 100 factory jobs lost in a community, 744 other jobs disappear, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
New York Times
July 22, 2025
It’s an article of faith in many conservative circles that the Trump administration’s tough anti-immigrant policies will free up jobs for U.S. born workers. New research from Economic Policy Institute senior economist Ben Zipperer, however, demonstrates conclusively that the opposite is the case. Zipperer’s calculations actually show that the net impact of mass deportation on employment – both for immigrants and U.S. born workers – is decidedly negative.
Indeed, he calculates that the administration’s goal of deporting one-million people per year will lead to a loss of nearly six million jobs over the coming years — more than forty percent of which will be jobs now held by U.S. born workers. The construction and child care industries will be among the hardest hit. Zipperer’s report is entitled “Trump’s deportation agenda will destroy millions of jobs,” and earlier this week, NC Newsline caught up with him at his Washington office.
NC Newsline
July 22, 2025
Samantha Sanders, director of government affairs and advocacy at the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute, said the repeal would not constitute a win for women.
“Saying we actually don’t think they need those protections would be pretty devastating to a workforce that performs really essential work and is very heavily dominated by women, and women of color in particular,” Sanders said.
Associated Press
July 22, 2025
A dead end at the federal level gives employers a nearly bottomless source of delays to union efforts, said Margaret Poydock, senior policy analyst with the Economic Policy Institute. To that end, employers including SpaceX and Amazon have begun filing petitions with the National Labor Relations Board arguing that the agency itself is unconstitutional. Others have argued that, without quorum at the federal level, regional NLRB offices cannot schedule elections. Every new filing increases the likelihood of a delay.
“Delays at the NLRB can disrupt the momentum of union organizing campaigns and workers’ ability to hold their employers accountable for violating labor law,” said Poydock. Trump’s firing of Wilcox “created the expectation that future board members are expected to side with employers over workers,” she said.
Capital & Main
July 21, 2025
According to a report from the Economic Policy Institute, workers lose over $15 billion each year due to minimum wage violations alone — a burden that disproportionately affects immigrant and undocumented workers.
MoneyWise
July 21, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute, Trump’s deportations will take 22,000 migrants out of the workforce. Approximately 10,000 losses are expected in manufacturing. The child care sector could lose 15.1% of its workforce nationwide.
The Gazette Cedar Rapids (Iowa)
July 21, 2025
President Donald Trump’s deportation quotas, which are rounding up plenty of folks who have no criminal record and are abiding by regular immigration court hearings in order to become legal citizens, are estimated to eventually cost the US around 6 million jobs, per a new Economic Policy Institute study. Around 2.6 million of those jobs will be jobs held by US-born workers. Half of the losses will be in construction and childcare, but agriculture will suffer too.
Iowa Starting Line
July 21, 2025
Ron Hira, associate professor of political science at Howard University and a research associate with the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), which advocates for progressive labor policy, told The Register that the concerns Lynn has raised are valid, though a narrow framing of a complex issue.
“There’s no doubt that the H-1B and OPT work program – and the OPT is not supposed to be a work program, but it really is – have really nothing to do with merit or competence or any kind of labor shortages,” Hira said.
“So those are fundamental flaws in the program. And then, on top of that, both of those programs allow employers to pay a lot less than market wages. So there’s no doubt that those programs distort the US labor market in very negative ways for workers who are in that market.”
The Register
July 21, 2025