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
Trump also fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics in August, the agency responsible for economic statistics, which was already weakened after years of tight budgets and staff shortages. That’s on top of a budget that “will gut Medicaid, slash food aid for families, and shutter rural hospitals,” says Economic Policy Institute President Heidi Shierholz — all in the name of handouts in the form of tax cuts for the superrich, increasing the national debt by trillions over the next decade while eliminating nearly 6 million jobs by trying to enact the mass deportation of one million people.
In These Times
August 13, 2025
As of September 2024, there were 12.2% fewer school bus drivers in the U.S. than in September 2019, according to Economic Policy Institute.
Shreveport Times
August 13, 2025
Valerie Wilson, a labor economist at the liberal Economic Policy Institute, said the modest rise in long-term joblessness could reflect employers getting pickier about hiring as President Donald Trump’s tariff regime changes the cost of doing business.
“People who have been unemployed for longer have clearly had some challenges in getting back into the labor market,” Wilson told HuffPost. “I think that as things have softened, and employers are facing more uncertainty given the sort of chaotic nature of economic policy in this country, that it would be harder for those people to find new jobs.”
Huffpost
August 13, 2025