In a statement, the Economic Policy Institute warned that freezing federal funding “risks throwing the U.S. economy into chaos.”
The statement, written by Samantha Sanders and Josh Bivens, warned that risks increased the longer uncertainty over federal funding persisted.
“The federal government gives $1 trillion in grants to state and local governments alone, for everything from physical infrastructure and public safety to health and social services,” they wrote. “Removing this money from the economy would represent a huge economic shock.”
Kansas City Beacon
February 4, 2025
Research by the progressive Economic Policy Institute shows union workers earn about 10.2% more in hourly wages, and even nonunion workers benefit in highly unionized industries.
Minnesota Reformer
February 4, 2025
Nina Mast, a policy and economic analyst for the Economic Policy Institute, said it is just the start of combatting illegal child labor in the Commonwealth.
Public News Service
February 4, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute,
“Following the EO’s directives would require executive branch agencies to illegally redirect dollars from programs where both funding levels and disbursement rules are assigned by Congress. Legality aside, this EO effectively redirects taxpayer money away from students attending public schools towards relatively well-off families who send their kids to private schools. Around 90 percent of students attend public schools — and this is particularly true in the low-income communities where private schools may be financially out of reach, and rural communities where private schools may not exist. These school districts rely on federal funds to provide high quality education.”
Under the Desk News (Substack)
February 4, 2025
The Economic Policy Institute reports that as of 2023, teachers nationwide earned 26.6% less than workers with similar educational credentials, and Mississippi’s average teacher salary is just $53,354.
WLOX-TV (Mississippi)
February 4, 2025
Private sector workers typically receive more pay than their public sector counterparts, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Philadelphia Inquirer
February 4, 2025
Trump’s tariffs were in effect well before shockwaves from the COVID-19 pandemic caused inflation to soar. The Economic Policy Institute estimated in January 2022 — a time when inflation was still skyrocketing — that removing the tariffs would have offset no more than 7.2% of the run-up in consumer prices.
Yahoo Finance
February 4, 2025
Voucher expansion legislation failed in Georgia, Texas, Idaho, Virginia, Kentucky, and South Dakota in 2023, according to a report by the Economic Policy Institute in April that year.
American Prospect
February 4, 2025
Heidi Shierholz, president of the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank in Washington, put it this way: “We are the richest country in the world, but we chronically fail to offer broad-based economic prosperity and security.”
New York Times
February 4, 2025
Grassley’s home state of Iowa is estimated to be home to nearly 105,000 illegal immigrants.
The Economic Policy Institute says that many of those workers are at Tyson’s processing plants. Governor Kim Reynolds has issued an order directing Iowa law enforcement officials to assist federal agencies including cases involving illegal immigrants.
RFD-TV
February 4, 2025