If Trump successfully deports millions of workers, the consequences could be economically devastating, says Daniel Costa, who leads the immigration law and policy research team at the Economic Policy Institute. Most significantly, deporting these workers would cause the remaining workers to pay higher prices for necessary goods like food and gas.
Jacobin
December 9, 2024
“Job openings … have normalized considerably over the last 2.5 years since their peak in March 2022,” Economic Policy Institute senior economist Elise Gould wrote in a commentary Tuesday.
The Hill
December 9, 2024
A study by the Economic Policy Institute compared the economies of states with strong collective bargaining laws with so-called “right-to-work” states from 2011 to 2018.
Wisconsin Examiner
December 9, 2024
Since January 2014, 28 states and Washington, D.C., have changed their laws around minimum wage, according to the Economic Policy Institute, which has been tracking these changes nationwide.
Delaware News Journal
December 9, 2024
A combination of policies and companies has created several obstacles for employees to have a union to join in the first place. The Economic Policy Institute estimates that corporations spend $431 million annually on union-avoidance consultants, shutting down unions before they can even form.
Brown Political Review
December 9, 2024
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) revealed 7.74 million job openings for October. Economic Policy Institute Senior Economist Elise Gould joined Wealth! to analyze the report and share her labor market outlook.
“The data is telling a consistent story so far,” Gould observed, pointing to sustained labor market strength. She highlights that hiring slowed while job openings and quits increased, collectively signaling “a very strong economy.” Looking ahead to the November jobs report, Gould indicated she will be particularly focused on wages and job growth figures.
Yahoo Finance TV
December 9, 2024
Across the U.S., investigations by the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division plummeted more than 60% from 2000 to 2022, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank based in Washington, D.C.
Rocky Mountain PBS
December 9, 2024
While salaries of chief executives declined last year, it remains enormous compared with the pay of other workers, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
From 1978 to last year, the compensation of chief executives rocketed 1,085 per cent, compared with a meagre 24 per cent rise in typical workers, the Washington, DC-based EPI said in a September report.
The National News
December 9, 2024
An October report from the Economic Policy Institute listed the many substantive economic benefits of immigration. In addition to an expanded U.S. gross domestic product, or GDP, immigration “has led to better, not worse, wages and work opportunities for U.S.-born workers.”
National Catholic Reporter
December 9, 2024
Minimum Wage: The survey calculated minimum wages for all cities as of January 1, 2024, with local adjustments above federal levels. Data was sourced from the Economic Policy Institute and UC Berkeley.
Santa Monica Daily Press
December 9, 2024