A White House press release published five days ago stated that the Trump tariffs during his first term had very little inflationary impact: “According to the Economic Policy Institute, the tariffs implemented by President Trump during his first term “clearly show[ed] no correlation with inflation” and had only a fleeting effect on overall prices.”
Vermont Daily Chronicle
April 14, 2025
Investors are eyeing how susceptible companies are to tariff impacts, including what they import and export and potential constraints on consumers, said Adam Hersh, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute.
Minnesota Star Tribune
April 14, 2025
Politifact
April 14, 2025
In testimony before the U.S. Senate in 1998, Robert Scott, an economist with the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, said trade imbalances had likely contributed to 2 million manufacturing job losses from 1979 to 1994, with hundreds of thousands resulting from the 1992 North American Free Trade Agreement alone — a pact Trump repeatedly criticized before replacing it with the United States-Mexico-Canada-Agreement in 2018.
NBC News
April 14, 2025
President Trump vowed there will be no pause to his wave of global tariffs. Despite the negative impact on the markets, and the increasing uncertainty about small and large businesses alike, the president promises his tariff plan will revive America’s manufacturing sector. Josh Bivens, chief economist at the Economic Policy Institute, joins to discuss.
CBS Evening News Plus
April 14, 2025
Maryland also has one of the highest proportions of Black workers in the country, with African Americans accounting for over 30 percent of the state’s labor force according to the Economic Policy Institute.
The Baltimore Afro American Online
April 13, 2025
…potentially 50,000 new roles by 2030 in these sectors, per the Economic Policy Institute. It won’t be easy. Efficiency and competitiveness…[paywall].
Forbes
April 13, 2025
That share-the-wealth momentum, unfortunately, would soon begin ebbing. Since the late 1970s, as the Economic Policy Institute has detailed, only Americans of substantial means have been sharing in Corporate America’s economic bounty.
Inequality.org
April 13, 2025
In 2022, Tukwila voters approved a measure to raise the minimum wage — now $20.29 an hour for large employers. Renton voters approved a measure in February 2024 to match neighboring Tukwila’s new wage. Everett would join these cities as having among the highest minimum wages in the country, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Cascade PBS
April 13, 2025