Another report last fall by Immigration Research Institute and the Economic Policy Institute put Iowa’s total immigrant population at 200,000. One-in-four doctors in Iowa are immigrants, as well as one-in-five maids and housekeepers and more than half of butchers and meat processors.
The Gazette
January 13, 2025
Figures from the Economic Policy Institute in 2021 showed that 92% of Dollar General employees were making less than $15 per hour.
Daily Meal
January 13, 2025
A 2021 analysis by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, for instance, found that at least a quarter of H-1B visas are allocated to outsourcing firms, which use the program to import foreign workers, train them up while paying below-market wages, and ultimately return them to their home countries, where they can do the same work at a fraction of the cost. In one infamous case, tech workers at Disney were forced to train their replacements, H-1B visa holders who were subcontracted by an Indian firm, before being laid off.
The Atlantic
January 13, 2025
Cites “New Evidence of Widespread Wage Theft in the H-1B Visa Program: Corporate Document Reveals How Tech Firms Ignore the Law and Systematically Rob Migrant Workers.” Economic Policy Institute, https://www.epi.org/publication/new-evidence-widespread-wage-theft-in-the-h-1b-program/. Accessed 3 Jan. 2025.
Snopes
January 13, 2025
Companies argue that visa caps and labor market misalignment hinder their ability to compete globally. Labor advocates and researchers from organizations like the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) caution against reforms that would loosen requirements and warn of potential worker exploitation.
Newsmax
January 13, 2025
When an employer declares that they are in need of an H-1B worker, they tie their requests to a “wage level,” and according to the Economic Policy Institute, 60% of H-1B requests certified by the U.S. Department of Labor “are assigned wage levels well below the local median wage for the occupation.”
EPI’s report specifically points out that Amazon, Microsoft, Walmart, Google, Apple and Facebook “take advantage of program rules in order to legally pay many of their H-1B workers below the local median wage.” All these companies, and Tesla too, are included in the top 30 H-1B employers — who “accounted for more than one in four of all 389,000 H-1B petitions.”
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
January 13, 2025
Already, 67% of U.S. workers now say they strongly support the idea of unions and 59% support unionization in their own workplace, a significant increase from the prior high of 39% in 2017 and 2018 according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Forbes
January 13, 2025
Similar data from the Economic Policy Institute puts state and local government employment at 2.3% below pre-pandemic levels, “as state agencies, school districts, and local governments have struggled to fill vacancies.”
The Washington Post Jobs
January 13, 2025
The list of the companies who make the most use of the H-1B visa is topped by Amazon, with well-known tech and consulting giants making up the majority of the list, including Infosys, Google, Meta, IBM and Deloitte in the top 10, with Accenture, Microsoft, Apple, Intel, EY and Goldman Sachs not far behind, according to a 2023 report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). Musk’s Tesla sits at 27, below Walmart (25) and above Cisco (28) and Nvidia (30).
Newsweek
January 13, 2025
Part of the growth in health care jobs is also tied to rising population and a burgeoning number of retirees, said Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute.
CNBC
January 13, 2025