The Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, credited the Section 232 tariffs of Mr. Trump’s first administration for somewhat reviving the primary aluminum industry.
New York Times
March 10, 2025
Another critical strategy involves bolstering data-driven research to quantify the positive impacts of Medicaid and SNAP on public health, economic stability, and educational outcomes. Nonpartisan economic policy organizations like the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, the Economic Policy Institute and the Columbia University Center on Poverty and Social Poverty all provide credible data so our policies can be informed by facts instead of fiction. This evidence can inform policy debates and shape public opinion, illustrating the long-term costs of short-sighted cuts.
Forbes
March 10, 2025
WOODS: Data quality is also about what gets measured. Elise Gould is a labor economist at the Economic Policy Institute. It’s a think tank that advocates for low and middle-income working families. It’s also part of a lawsuit seeking to bar DOGE from accessing systems at the Department of Labor, which oversees the BLS.
WONG: Elise recently went to look up government data on poverty levels by race, and the information was gone. It later came back, but Elise says that if the administration decides it no longer wants to track, say, unemployment rates by gender or race, that would be a blow to her work.
ELISE GOULD: What I look for in the labor market is how is it affecting workers and their families? And you want to know how that affects, not just the average, but different groups of people. Race and ethnicity and gender are very key indicators to know how people are doing in the economy. And we think having that complete picture is very important to have evidence-based policy making.
NPR Planet Money
March 10, 2025
Since then, the U.S. manufacturing sector shrunk. New increases in tariffs could slash gross domestic product and cost hundreds of thousands of American jobs, the Economic Policy Institute pointed out in a 2020 study. Higher prices, lower profits, less investments into the future, reduced competitiveness, lower growth – you get the idea.
LA Business Journal
March 10, 2025
“Unfortunately, this is the calm before the storm as trouble is clearly brewing and the pain will be felt across the economy in coming months,” said Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute.
While Gould stressed that “it’s too soon” for jobs data to reflect the impact of the Trump administration’s effort, in concert with billionaire Elon Musk, to gut the federal workforce—which has impacted some 100,000 government employees thus far—she said emerging numbers are still cause for concern.
Common Dreams
March 10, 2025
According to CNBC, the jobless rate for Black workers overall dropped from 6.2% in January to 6% in February. Although Elise Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, indicated that the full effect of the government layoffs is not yet reflected in the data and that unemployment numbers are generally volatile from one month to the next, the positive numbers for Black men cannot be ignored.
Black Enterprise
March 10, 2025
Elise Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, agreed. For a single month, she said, the household survey is less reliable.
“When the surveys tell a different story, we got to take the payroll survey — give that more weight because of the sample size,” she said.
But, she said, over time, “the household survey can’t be ignored. Sometimes the household survey is better at predicting changes in the business cycle. It might find softening sooner,” she said.
Marketplace
March 10, 2025
To be sure, the unemployment data for February comes amid a push from President Donald Trump and Elon Musk‘s Department of Government Efficiency to reduce the federal workforce. The full impact of those cuts have yet to unfold, and further uncertainties around the direction of the U.S. economy and tariff decisions could affect hiring, according to Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute.
“It’s the calm before the storm,” she said. “We’re not seeing the layoffs in the data yet, for the most part.”
CNBC
March 10, 2025
But the report also shows 10,000 jobs were lost last month in the federal government. And Elise Gould, who’s with the Economic Policy Institute, says that’s just the beginning as this administration aims for a much sharper downsizing of the federal workforce.
ELISE GOULD: So this is really the tip of the iceberg, this loss of 10,000 federal jobs. Many more to come. It seems like that is an unfortunate reality we’ll be looking at in coming months.
NPR
March 10, 2025
Top executives are also becoming increasingly richer. CEO compensation rose 1,085% between 1978 and 2023 compared to a 24% increase in compensation for the typical worker, according to the Economic Policy Institute. In 2023, CEOs received 290 times as much compensation as a typical worker. In 1965, CEOs received only 21 times as much.
Marketplace
March 10, 2025