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• Chico joins protesters across the country in opposition to Trump administration

  The Economic Policy Institute of America reports immigrants are a vital part of the economy and have led to higher wages for American-born residents and immigrants alike. It reports that immigrant workers generated $4.6 trillion dollars for the U.S. economy in 2022.

  North State Public Radio February 7, 2025
• What Would a Pro-Worker Agenda for the South Look Like?

  Jasmine Payne-Patterson, Senior State Policy Strategist with the Economic Policy Institute, joins us to talk about how the pro-worker fight is going in the States, but especially the South.

  The Valley Labor Report February 7, 2025
• 7 Ways to Get Financial Help From the Government

  Child care is one of the biggest budget breakers for many families. Annual costs for infant care range from just shy of $5,000 in Mississippi to more than $22,600 in Washington, D.C., according to the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit organization focused on low- and middle-income workers.

  NerdWallet February 7, 2025
• Major Unions Sue DOGE to Block Musk Labor Department “Power Grab”

  The lawsuit was filed by Democracy Forward on behalf of AFL-CIO and affiliated unions, the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and Communications Workers of America (CWA). The Economic Policy Institute also joined the suit.

  Truthout February 7, 2025
• The Timeline: Black Homeownership

  The problem didn’t come out of nowhere, according to Richard Rothstein, a distinguished fellow at the Economic Policy Institute and author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America.

  Many people have heard of redlining—the practice where banks literally drew red lines on maps around Black neighborhoods to deny mortgages—but that’s only part of the story. Redlining was officially outlawed in 1968, and is only a slice of the numerous ways that public policy locked Black people out of homeownership and conspired to depress equity once the doors were finally opened.

  BET February 7, 2025
• Worried about Elon Musk and DOGE getting your Social Security number? Here’s how to protect yourself.

  Unions and the Economic Policy Institute filed suit in federal district court in Washington, D.C., to keep Musk and DOGE out of U.S. Labor Department files, following a suit by the Alliance for Retired Americans and others to keep them out of the personal files held by the U.S. Treasury.

  MarketWatch February 7, 2025
• Trump detests the U.S. trade deficit. Here’s what it means.

  There may have been a point in the 1980s and 1990s when America’s widening trade deficit began to cause problems again. In testimony before the U.S. Senate in 1998, Robert Scott, an economist with the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, said trade imbalances had likely contributed to 2 million manufacturing job losses between 1979 and 1994, with hundreds of thousands resulting from the 1992 North American Free Trade Agreement alone

  NBC News February 7, 2025
• Bill to offer unemployment pay to striking workers sets up clash in Salem

  In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a 2023 bill that would have paid striking workers, saying the move would cost too much at a time the state was already struggling to pay out other unemployment claims. Past proposals in more than half a dozen other states have failed to make it to the governor’s desk, according to a tally by the Washington, D.C.-based Economic Policy Institute.

  Oregon Public Radio February 7, 2025
• Zero Impact on the Economy: Sen. Grassley weighs in on the impact of Trump’s deportation efforts

  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
• The Education Freedom Act Is Unsustainable, Unreliable And Unjust

  Last month the Economic Policy Institute released a report entitled: “How Vouchers Harm Public Schools: Calculating The Cost of Voucher Programs to Public School Districts.” The report questions “whether letting public money leave the public school system and subsidize private forms of schooling is a way to improve children’s access to an excellent education.” By measuring some of the “fiscal externalities” vouchers will have on public schools, which are the dollar costs to school districts from students leaving public schools with a voucher, the report seeks to “put a number to the reality that children who don’t participate in voucher programs will still bear the cost for educational choices that others make”. 

  TheChattanoogan.com February 4, 2025