Features interview with Valerie Wilson on Black federal workers.
WURD Radio
April 28, 2025
Estimates vary on how many jobs have actually been lost. About 700,000 positions were eliminated directly as a result of NAFTA, according to the Economic Policy Institute, and many more as a result of other trade agreements. You can see the manufacturing industry’s decline reflected in union membership. In the 1970s, UAW had a high of 1.5 million members. By 2023, the union had fewer than 400,000 members.
VOX
April 28, 2025
Features interview with Nina Mast.
MSNBC
April 28, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute, lawmakers, mostly Republicans, have sponsored bills to loosen teen workers’ restrictions.
Newsmax
April 28, 2025
The government-funded steel expansion flooded the world market with steel, reducing demand for the same period. In 2000, the U.S. had 10% of the world steel market, but that shrank to less than 5% in 2019, according to data from the Economic Policy Institute.
Washington Times
April 28, 2025
“The CES data are jobs data reported by Virginia-based employers … The LAUS data provides information on the employment status of Virginia residents, wherever they work,” said David Cooper, a labor economist at the Economic Policy Institute. That distinction matters in a place where thousands of residents cross into Washington, D.C. for federal jobs.
Virginia has one of the country’s highest concentrations of federal employees and contractors, with over 144,000 residents either working in or tied to the federal workforce—many commute daily to agencies and contract roles in D.C. or Maryland.
“It’s never a good idea to look at single-month changes in either of these surveys,” said David Cooper, a labor economist at the Economic Policy Institute. “The month-to-month patterns can reverse quickly just due to noise in the data.”
The Center Square
April 28, 2025
Progressive and conservative groups also tend to clash when it comes to interpreting workers’ desire to be classified as independent contractors; while Cassidy cited Bureau of Labor Statistics data that 80% of independent contractors prefer their classification, progressive think tank Economic Policy Institute has said many low-paying workers are misclassified and lose out on rights and benefits.
HR Dive
April 28, 2025
The Economic Policy Institute reported earlier this month that children could also be heavily affected if budget cuts were to impact Medicaid expansion or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). The proposed decreases to Medicaid funding could increase the number of uninsured children by about 12%, the think tank found.
News Nation Now
April 28, 2025
We are told Tennessee is a low tax state, but in reality it is only a low tax state for big corporations. The Economic Policy Institute reports that more than 60% of companies filing in Tennessee pay zero in the state corporate income tax. That includes 24% of companies that report over $1 billion in revenue to the federal government, according to the Tennessee Department of Revenue as reported by Tennessee Senate Democrats.
Tennessean
April 28, 2025
Adam Hersh, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, told me that he doesn’t believe Trump has shown any signs of a rational or strategic approach.
“If it was strategic, you wouldn’t be putting tariffs on Heard and McDonald Islands near Antarctica — full of penguins — or Lesotho, one of the poorest countries in the world,” Hersh said. “You wouldn’t be putting tariffs on countries that we’ve been encouraging as an alternative for manufacturing to divert investments out of China. Or putting tariffs on countries that you wanted alliances with to isolate China, so that you can get economic concessions from them. Instead, we’re driving all those countries into China’s arms.”
MSNBC.com
April 28, 2025