“Our country has lost more than 5 million jobs in more than 90,000 factories due to devastating globalization over the last three decades alone.”
A White House official said the source was a 2020 report from the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. The headline was: “We can reshore manufacturing jobs, but Trump hasn’t done it.”
According to the article — written by a now-retired EPI economist — “the U.S. has suffered a net loss of more than 91,000 manufacturing plants and nearly 5 million manufacturing jobs since 1997.”
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The employment-loss numbers “are about the job displacements associated with higher trade deficits,” said Josh Bivens, chief economist at EPI, in an email. “These deficits are, in our view, definitely a problem. But we’d also argue that they are a problem that will not be effectively addressed with large, across-the-board increases in tariffs. Large, across-the-board tariffs have no real chance of really reducing trade deficits unless they become so prohibitive that they shut down essentially all trade. Tariffs can be a useful and strategic tool to hit targeted goals and provide effective protection to narrow industries, but they cannot work to increase manufacturing employment generally.”
The Washington Post
March 17, 2025
Veterans make up more than 30% of the federal workforce.
- Illinois is home to 20,900 civilian federal employees who are veterans, spouses of veterans, or spouses of active military personnel, according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute.
Axios Chicago
March 17, 2025
A report from the Economic Policy Institute ranks Washington state as the eighth most expensive state when it comes to infant care, at an average cost of $1,723 per month, or $20,677 per year. Child care for a 4-year old comes in at an average of $1,201 per year.
Along with costing 154% more than tuition at a public four-year university, child care costs barely less than the average rent bill.
Tri-Cities Area Business Journal
March 17, 2025
In 2023, the state rolled back its previous protections for child labor, despite a 266% rise in violations from 2020 to 2023.
Nina Mast, a policy analyst at the Economic Policy Institute, said these protections are important for young workers. She said permits keep employers compliant with state labor laws, inform parents of the job duties and create a dedicated paper trail for enforcement.
“It’s not a burdensome process,” she said. “It creates some work for the employers, schools and labor agencies, but it’s worth it.”
States that required children to get work permits had 15% fewer workplace violations between 2008 and 2020, according to a University of Maryland study.
Mountain State Spotlight
March 17, 2025
A new report from the Economic Policy Institute reveals that the average annual cost of infant childcare in Indiana is $14,471.
That exceeds the cost of in-state college tuition at Indiana University and Purdue University.
WWBL
March 17, 2025
Research from the Economic Policy Institute think tank found that the now-paused 25 percent tariffs on…[paywall].
Boston Globe
March 17, 2025
Nevada is one of the 38 states in the United States where childcare is more expensive than in-state college tuition, according to the Economic Policy Institute. The average annual cost of infant care in Nevada is $15,950 and the cost of care for a 4-year-old is $13,268.
Nevada Current
March 17, 2025
In practice, high tariffs could lead to high shelf prices for consumers, as importers often raise their prices to make up for the increased cost of tariffs. This is known as “price pass-through,” according to the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank that carries out economic research and analyzes the economic impact of policies and proposals.
Snopes
March 17, 2025
A spokesperson for the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive independent think tank that researches economic trends and policies, said their experts were not aware of similar bills that had recently been introduced elsewhere in the U.S.
Orlando Weekly
March 17, 2025
Even Trump, Baumgartner pointed out, has come to endorse a more targeted approach to cutting the government workforce, whose salaries account for about 5% of federal spending, according to the nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute.
Spokesman Review
March 17, 2025