States with the most federal workers graph.
Source: Economic Policy Institute
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March 17, 2025
This episode of Planet Money was produced and also reported a little bit by Willa Rubin. It was edited by Jess Jiang and engineered by Jimmy Keeley, with fact-checking help from Sierra Juarez. Alex Goldmark is our executive producer. We also want to give a special thanks to Ben Zipperer at the Economic Policy Institute. He also really helped us understand who the federal workforce is. I’m Sarah Gonzalez.
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March 17, 2025
Federal employees “underpin every part of our economy and public safety,” Jennifer Sherer of the Economic Policy Institute and one of the rally’s speakers told The Catholic Messenger.
Catholic Messenger
March 17, 2025
Medicaid covers more than 50 percent of children in small towns and rural areas in six states: Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, New Mexico, and South Carolina, according to the Economic Policy Institute,
New York Amsterdam News
March 17, 2025
“The most damaging way to finance TCJA extensions would be with spending cuts for programs like SNAP or Medicaid,” Josh Bivens, chief economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning Washington think tank, wrote in a February analysis.
The Hill
March 17, 2025
Despite performing well following the November presidential election in the US, Tesla’s stock was volatile during 2024 overall and has declined sharply since the start of this year. Robert Scott, a specialist in international economics and trade policy at the US-based Economic Policy Institute, said a fall in the share price was inevitable due to its “extreme overvaluation”.
“Tesla’s stock was highly overvalued, with one of the highest price-to-earnings ratios ever recorded,” Scott told Al Jazeera. This means the price of the stock was very high compared with the profits the company was generating. “This indicates that the stock price was inflated relative to market fundamentals.”
Al Jazeera
March 17, 2025
The federal government employs about 57,000 people in Colorado. States harder hit by the federal layoffs are near Washington, D.C., including Virginia, with 235,469 workers; Maryland, with 225,403 workers; and California, with 255,642. according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute.
Colorado Sun
March 17, 2025
Heidi Shierholz, the president of the Economic Policy Institute, added some context to Gould’s observations: “We will start seeing the real impact of federal worker layoffs next month,” she wrote on Bluesky. These impacts will show up “not only [in] reducing overall employment but undermining essential public services, making communities less safe, less healthy, and less economically stable.”
Civic Ventures
March 17, 2025
This might lead to less consumption or the consumption of alternate local products. Also, according to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) ,an independent think tank, higher tariffs can lead to a decrease in exports as many US exports use imports as intermediate inputs to final goods produced in the country. “Making these inputs more expensive with tariffs will boost the price of these U.S. exports and make them less competitive in global markets.”
Deutsche Welle
March 17, 2025
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