There are an estimated 600,000 immigrant workers in the US on H-1B visas, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington, DC-based think tank.
Al Jazeera
January 27, 2025
It’s also left to be seen if Trump will quickly oust NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo, who the Economic Policy Institute has said is “arguably one of the most effective forces for workers in the Biden administration.”
McKnight’s Senior Living
January 27, 2025
“What happened here was an unwillingness of HHS to muscle back [at] Maximus,” said Celine McNicholas, director of policy and government affairs at the Economic Policy Institute. “It’s a bad precedent and, frankly, a betrayal of that workforce not to have fought the fight — instead to be held hostage by this firm to the tune of $6 billion in taxpayer funding. It’s a failure over years.”
Capital & Main
January 27, 2025
According to a 2021 report from the Economic Policy Institute, the IT staffing firm HCL has systematically underpaid their H-1B workers — relative to what was required by law — effectively stealing $95 million in wages from them.
VOX
January 27, 2025
The left-leaning Economic Policy Institute estimates the hikes will benefit 9.2 million workers and increase total pay by $5.7 billion.
The Washington Times
January 27, 2025
The argument of job losses has frequently been made in opposition to minimum wage increases. The federal minimum wage has remained $7.25 an hour since 2009, although by 2027 nearly half of all US workers will live in a state with at least a $15-an-hour minimum wage.
But a review by the Economic Policy Institute in September found this narrative to be “largely wrong”, citing that most minimum wage studies find little to no effect on employment.
Time Magazine
January 27, 2025
The argument of job losses has frequently been made in opposition to minimum wage increases. The federal minimum wage has remained $7.25 an hour since 2009, although by 2027 nearly half of all US workers will live in a state with at least a $15-an-hour minimum wage.
But a review by the Economic Policy Institute in September found this narrative to be “largely wrong”, citing that most minimum wage studies find little to no effect on employment.
The Guardian
January 27, 2025
Costco calculates that in 2024, Vachris made 262 times more than the median worker, including both full- and part-time staff. His pay was 192 times what the median full-time employee receives.
According to the Economic Policy Institute, the average CEO of the 350 largest public companies was paid 290 times more than the typical worker.
Barron’s
January 27, 2025
After nominees for U.S. President Donald Trump’s Cabinet this week endorsed work requirements for social safety net programs, an economic think tank released a Friday report detailing the policy’s drawbacks.
“Work requirements for safety net programs are a punitive solution that solves no real problem,” said Economic Policy Institute (EPI) economist and report author Hilary Wething in a statement about her new publication.
“They do not reliably increase employment, but they do kick people off essential benefits like food assistance and healthcare,” she stressed. “If policymakers are genuinely concerned about improving access to work, they should support policies like affordable child- and eldercare.”
Common Dreams
January 27, 2025
Data shows workers in right-to-work states make 3.2 percent less on average than their counterparts in similar positions in non-right-to-work states — $1,670 per year for a full-time worker — according to the Washington, D.C.-based Economic Policy Institute. On job growth, the Economic Policy Institute draws a different conclusion from the Harvard study cited by Cline, saying there are “no measurable employment advantages between RTW and non-RTW states.”
The Keene Sentinel
January 27, 2025