Adam Hersh, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, said, “The chaotic tariff policy is still doing damage. It’s still raising prices. It’s still undermining American manufacturing and hurting working families, and it’s still leading us on a path to recession.”
Hearst TV
May 19, 2025
Currently, the Trump administration is negotiating a trade deal with China, agreeing to a 90-day truce. During that, many companies are likely stockpiling on goods, leading to increased trade and purchasing but offering minimal relief for inflation.
“It takes so long for orders to be placed, to be put on a ship, to make it across the ocean and then to make it to their destinations. In the United States, it takes a long time to plan for those things,” Adam Hersh from the Economic Policy Institute said. “Ninety days of uncertainty about what will happen next is not a lot of confidence for importers.”
Hearst TV
May 19, 2025
The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) echoes these concerns, pointing out that Black workers are overrepresented in low-wage positions that are rapidly being phased out by technology. Approximately 24% of Black workers are employed in administrative, production, and service roles that automation threatens to eliminate. With fewer resources to upskill or transition into tech-driven industries, the community faces a looming crisis of economic displacement.
BET.com
May 19, 2025
The difficulty unions have in clearing that second bar—a hurdle unique to Colorado—explains in large part why the percentage of unionized Colorado workers is so low. Data from the Economic Policy Institute indicates that Colorado’s union density (7.7 percent in 2024) much more closely resembles that of right-to-work states (with an average of 6.2 percent in 2024) than non-right-to-work states (15.8 percent in 2024). Colorado is the only state with Democratic trifecta control of government to have such a law.
American Prospect
May 19, 2025
Mishel was the long-serving president of the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank that has been an invaluable source of data and analysis about …[paywall].
Paul Krugman Substack
May 19, 2025
However, the wage advantage of a manufacturing career has fallen since the 1980s — but it still constitutes a substantial manufacturing wage premium. A recent study by the Economic Policy Institute shows that workers’ net productivity grew 59.7% from 1979 to 2019, while compensation grew 15.8%.
Ventura County Star
May 19, 2025
Meanwhile, separate research from the Economic Policy Institute has shown that the U.S. lost more than 5 million manufacturing jobs from 1998 to 2021 as the trade deficit in manufactured goods with China, Japan, Mexico, the European Union, and other countries grew deeper.
Fortune
May 19, 2025
A new report from the magazine Travel and Leisure highlighting the 50 best places in the country to retire included four New England towns on its list.
The magazine partnered with financial website Investopedia to compile the rankings. Data from the Census Bureau, the Economic Policy Institute’s Family Budget Calculator, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and more were used to rank cities based on cost of living and access to travel, healthcare, and entertainment.
Journal Inquirer
May 13, 2025
“The school bus driver shortage remains severe, and bus driver pay is getting worse,” according to a November 2024 blog post from the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank “that works to counter rising inequality, low wages and weak benefits for working people.”
There were 12.2% fewer school bus drivers on the road nationally in September 2024 than five years earlier, according to the institute. And the median school bus driver in 2023 earned 43% less than the median weekly wage for all workers while weekly earnings for bus drivers fell by 2.8% since 2019.
Look Out Eugene Springfield
May 13, 2025