According to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), targeted tariffs can help to protect certain U.S. manufacturing industries.
Tariffs on steel (25%) and aluminum (10%) imports have been in place since March 2018 under national security provisions of U.S. trade law, though exemptions were put in place.
Trump’s latest proclamation raises the tariff on aluminum and resets those national exemptions and exclusions.
According to the EPI, evidence suggests the 2018 tariffs have been effective in preserving and expanding the domestic steel industry.
WBFO (Buffalo)
March 19, 2025
Trump is unlikely to privatize USPS in one fell swoop because of economic and political considerations, but he could chip away at it and slowly cripple the agency, said Monique Morrissey, a senior economist at the pro-labor think tank Economic Policy Institute.
“This is going to backfire against him but the question is, ‘How much damage can he do in the meantime?’” she said. “They can scare everybody into thinking that full-frontal privatization is on the table so they’ll accept partial privatization that will be more on the fringes and less politically toxic.”
Bloomberg Law
March 19, 2025
Nearly 40% of Americans felt stuck in their current jobs, according to a recent Harris Poll. Economic Policy Institute senior economist Elise Gould summarizes US worker sentiments on the difficulty in finding a new job and the challenges seeking out higher wages.
Yahoo Finance TV
March 19, 2025
Charleston Gazette-Mail
March 18, 2025
The Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think-tank, developed a tool designed to predict how expected enrollment declines in public schools would reduce per-pupil funds in individual school districts across the country.
That tool doesn’t include BIE schools, but it indicates that if Todd County School District were to lose 5% of its students due to voucher programs, each of the remaining students would see a $592 decline in funding. The district did not respond to requests for comment about the order and its potential effects.
Hilary Wething, an EPI economist, said such declines can undermine the public school system more broadly.
“Public dollars allocated to education should go to boosting spending in public systems, not subsidizing private education,” Wething wrote in a recent paper.
The Daily Progress
March 18, 2025
For infants, the most costly age for care, the price of daily care in South Carolina averaged $11,512 for calendar year 2023, according to an analysis released earlier this month by the Economic Policy Institute . For 4-year-olds, it was $10,481.
“A typical family in South Carolina would have to spend 26.10% of its income on child care for an infant and a 4-year-old,” according to the report.
South Carolina Daily Gazette
March 18, 2025
Statewide, as many as 44,000 workers are employed by the federal government, representing about 1 out of every 20 jobs, according to the nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute. Among states and the nation’s capital, New Mexico has the fourth-highest percentage of federal workers making up its workforce.
Organ Mountain News
March 18, 2025
Child Care in Maryland is expensive and hard to find. A new report by the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal think tank, ranks Maryland as the eleventh most expensive state for child care.
WYPR
March 18, 2025
By the numbers: In San Antonio-area congressional districts, veterans make up a sizable share of civilian federal employment, per new data from the Economic Policy Institute.
- In Texas’ 23rd Congressional District, represented by Republican U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, about 7,500 veterans account for about 48% of the federal workforce.
Axios San Antonio
March 18, 2025
And it’s hard to see how these ultra rich folks can be advocates for the economic interests of most Americans. While members of Trump’s government have become extremely wealthy, the standard of living for our middle class has continued to decline during the last four decades. American workers are now 81% more productive than they were 45 years ago, according to the Economic Policy Institute, yet their wages have grown by only 29%.
The Oklahoman
March 18, 2025