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 Economic Policy Institute has found that nearly 90% of employers have used captive-audience meetings to deter unionization efforts, spending more than $400 million a year and using extremely intimidating tactics. California joins 11 other states with bans on mandatory anti-union meetings, and six more state proposals are in the works.
Athol Daily News
February 4, 2025
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
The National Employment Law Project, the Economic Policy Institute, and several other pro-worker organizations have put together a guide for state policymakers who want to preserve these important policies.
Bucks County Beacon
February 4, 2025
Moynihan says the government spends “about $350 billion on federal employees every year, out of a $6.5 trillion budget.”
That represents “a tiny sliver of total government spending — just around 5% to 6%,” according to Josh Bivens, chief economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank.
NPR
February 4, 2025
The UC Santa Cruz survey is similar to a 2024 Economic Policy Institute (EPI) study of union attitudes across the nation. EPI found since 1977, American workers’ attitudes toward unionization have turned positive. In 1977, approximately 27% of nonunion, nonmanagerial workers indicated they would vote for union representation. By 2023, this figure had risen to 43%.
Forbes
February 4, 2025
Josh Bivens, chief economist and research director at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), told Newsweek in a previous article that these actions could trigger a “steep recession.”
Newsweek
February 4, 2025
“REI is committed to negotiating in good faith with our stores that have chosen union representation,” the company wrote in a statement. “The collective bargaining process—especially when negotiating a first contract—can be lengthy.”
But Margaret Poydock, a senior policy analyst at the Economic Policy Institute, expresses skepticism. Poydock tells NPQ that employers can use various strategies “to delay and lengthen negotiations—to diminish solidarity and, you know, potentially morale for workers. I think employers see first contract negotiations as, like, a way to potentially beat the union.”
Nonprofit Quarterly
February 4, 2025
The Economic Policy Institute noted that “although the latest BLS data show a decline in the unionization rate, many workers continued to make organizing gains within auto manufacturing, hospitality, public education, and healthcare.”
Common Dreams
February 4, 2025
Earlier this year, the Economic Policy Institute found that right-to-work laws actually hurt state economies, rather than spurring economic activity as its proponents would hope. Workers in right to work states are paid on average 3.2% less than similar workers in non-right-to-work states.
The Highlander News
February 4, 2025