“Why would you cut 7,000 employees to save 0.06 percent of the budget from one of the most important agencies?” Suozzi asked.
According to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, administrative costs account for less than 1 percent of the SSA’s spending.
Daily Beast
April 28, 2025
Bertucci’s specifically blamed input costs, waning consumer confidence and worsening economic conditions earlier this year, rather than the longer problems in the casual dining sector, for its bankruptcy filing.
Those conditions are related to the macroeconomic policy the Trump administration has implemented since taking office in January, Adam Hersh, a senior economist with the Economic Policy Institute, said in a previous interview with Restaurant Dive. That policy has created a recessionary storm by weakening consumer demand and increasing input costs.
Restaurant Dive
April 28, 2025
An analysis by the Economic Policy Institute finds that increasing the federal minimum wage to $17 per hour by 2030 would affect one million workers in Pennsylvania and more than 22 million workers nationwide.
Public News Service
April 28, 2025
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