The nonpartisan, nonprofit Economic Policy Institute think tank reported: “Steel and aluminum manufacturing are critical to the U.S. industrial base for both economic and national security reasons. Both industries have been plagued by chronic global overcapacity and unfair trading practices that have pushed U.S. producers to the brink of financial inviability, most notably from heavily-subsidized and state-backed producers in China, India, Turkey, Iran, South Korea, Vietnam, Russia, Brazil, Mexico, and imports have been surging once again.”
Metal Tech News
February 18, 2025
Transportation issues with Jefferson County Public Schools have resulted in cuts, lawsuits and hardships for families trying to get students back and forth to school. On this episode, we talk about JCPS and transportation. How do other cities handle it? And how does our own system compare? Our guests are Jess Clark, who covers education for LPM, and Sebastian Martinez Hickey, an analyst and researcher with the Economic Policy Institute.
Louisville Public Media
February 18, 2025
On average, Hoosiers spend more than $12,000 annually on child care for infants, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Some legislators are looking for ways to alleviate cost associated with newborns. A Senate committee advanced a bill Tuesday to establish a tax credit for newborn children.
Lakeshore Public Media
February 18, 2025
Arizona State University ranked Ohio 35th in job growth last year. And when the Economic Policy Institute in 2023 looked at state unemployment rates by state since 2007 — the year the Great Recession struck — Ohio ranked near the bottom of states.
Ohio Capital Journal
February 18, 2025
Since 1979, net productivity has grown by 64%, while the hourly pay of typical workers has only increased by 17.3%, according to the Economic Policy Institute. This gap mirrors the economic disenfranchisement seen after the failure to provide land ownership to freed slaves.
Forbes
February 18, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute, the global economy has eliminated more than 5 million U.S. manufacturing jobs and nearly 70,000 factories.
Governing
February 18, 2025
A December 2024 report from the Economic Policy Institute found that “more than $1.5 billion in stolen wages were recovered for workers between 2021 and 2023.” In that period, the U.S. Department of Labor recovered nearly $700 million in stolen wages, while state departments of labor and attorneys general recovered $201.4 million.
National Catholic Reporter
February 18, 2025
Many Americans saw their inflation-adjusted wages decline between 2020 and 2024, economists say. And wages had stagnated for lower- and middle-income Americans before the pandemic.
“People were already sort of feeling strapped, so it’s no surprise that people are feeling strapped now,” said Elise Gould, a senior economist at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
USA Today
February 18, 2025
A recent report from the Economic Policy Institute shows where you live can make a difference in the cost of raising kids.
Which places are the least and most expensive, and what can you do if you live somewhere that’s increasingly unaffordable? We’ll break it down below.
Yakima Herald
February 18, 2025
Trump’s executive order to revoke federal funding for investments in manufacturing clean vehicle technologies “portends a bleak future for the jobs and communities building big trucks and buses in the United States,” according to the Economic Policy Institute. Their new report, co-authored with the BlueGreen Alliance, argues that transitioning from internal combustion engines (ICE) to low- and no-emission technologies “is a critical step for eliminating greenhouse gas and other toxic emissions from the transportation economy.”
Clean Technica
February 18, 2025