However, according to data from the nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute (EPI), undocumented individuals accounted for over one-third of each of the nation’s landscaping, farming and construction industries.
“It is crystal clear that immigration expands U.S. gross domestic product and is good for growth,” EPI researchers wrote. “And immigration overall has led to better, not worse, wages and work opportunities for U.S.-born workers.”
GO Banking Rates
February 18, 2025
On Tuesday, Trump announced new tariffs on all imports of steel and aluminum. This generated a now predictable cycle in which foreign governments complained and threatened retaliation and lots of analysts wrote tweets and articles explaining why this is a bad idea, while fans of tariffs, like the union-aligned Economic Policy Institute, argued that taxing imported metals “preserves a tool that has helped shore-up critical domestic metals manufacturing with likely minimal impacts on overall consumer price inflation.”
Slow Boring (Matthew Yglesias Substack)
February 18, 2025
A report from the Economic Policy Institute states that ending federal support for clean trucks and buses could have serious implications.
Automotive World
February 18, 2025
According to Celine McNicholas, director of policy at the Economic Policy Institute, the idea that the union would provide benefits only to dues-paying members is false. “It is essentially the opposite situation in right-to-work states,” she wrote to me in an e-mail. “Non-dues paying members still receive the benefit of union representation without paying for the representation.”
The Nation
February 18, 2025
“Instead of undermining the economic security of tipped workers, Michigan policymakers should take steps to make the phase-out of the tipped minimum wage as smooth as possible for businesses, workers, and consumers,” said Sebastian Hickey of the Economic Policy Institute.
The Center Square
February 18, 2025
Nina Mast is a policy and economic analyst with the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank in Washington, D.C. Mast wrote a report on new research that found states that mandated work permit systems saw more than 15 percent fewer child labor violations and about 35 percent fewer minors involved in these violations compared with states lacking these protections.
Mast said Wisconsin’s youth work permit system improves enforcement against child labor violations.
“The unique thing about the Wisconsin system is that they’re actually using the small fees that employers have to pay for the work permit to actually fund their labor enforcement, specifically their child labor enforcement,” Mast said.
“It’s really a win-win,” she continued. “Because it’s a system that not only keeps kids safe, but also funds this enforcement priority that we know is underfunded in a lot of states and at the federal level.”
Wisconsin Public Radio
February 18, 2025
Daniel Perez, an analyst with the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank based in Washington, D.C., said their research determined the bill would result in “minimal cost” for the state.
The median strike duration in Oregon in the last four years has been five days, according to Perez.
He added that based on strike action data, strike duration or frequency in New Jersey has not increased since 2023 when the governor reduced the waiting period for striking workers to qualify for unemployment.
Salem Statesman Journal
February 18, 2025
Unions and nonprofits seeking to stop Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing the U.S. Department of Labor’s data have enhanced their injunction request, looking also to shield the Consumer…[paywall].
Law360
February 18, 2025
Driving the news: The overall U.S. unemployment rate was 4.2% as of Q3 2024, but the rate among Black Americans was 6.5%, per the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank.
- Oregon matched the national rate, with a gap of 2.3%.
- Kentucky had the widest gap at 6.1% while Mississippi and Maryland were tied for the lowest at 0.8%.
Axios
February 18, 2025
Wage theft costs American workers as much as $50 billion a year, according to a 2014 estimate by the Economic Policy Institute, a pro-labor think tank.
Capital Times
February 18, 2025