Trump’s promise to create a national deportation force to round up millions of undocumented immigrants will, at the very least, destabilize a healthy chunk of the local economy. Immigrant-owned businesses and workers, who represent 16% of the workforce, generate $104 billion in economic output in Virginia, according to a recent report by the Immigration Research Initiative, Economic Policy Institute and the Commonwealth Institute for Fiscal Analysis.
The Daily Progress
November 15, 2024
Bus driver shortages have been an ongoing issue both locally and across the country. Data from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) indicates that from September 2019 to September 2023, there was a 15.1% decrease in the total number of K-12 bus drivers nationwide. Private school bus driver employment also declined by 21.5% over the same four-year period.
Saratoga Today
November 15, 2024
In these areas, Black communities often seek economic mobility. Data from the Economic Policy Institute suggests that tax policies benefiting corporations without targeted support for lower-income communities tend to increase economic disparities.
Seattle Medium
November 15, 2024
And if you funded other groups — and I take your point about the Democrats being rhetorically and sometimes substantively more pro-labor, but I think the Economic Policy Institute is like that — the only real protrade union think tank of any stature in Washington still, right?
The Ezra Klein Show (New York Times)
November 13, 2024
Schroeder noted that unionized California public employees were insulated from any changes the Trump administration might make to the National Labor Relations Board. During Trump’s first term, the NLRB issued several decisions that weakened worker protections under federal labor law, according to a report from the pro-labor nonprofit Economic Policy Institute.
Sacramento Bee
November 13, 2024
According to a report published by the Economic Policy Institute, on average, a worker covered by a union contract earns 10.2 percent more in wages than a peer with similar education, occupation, and experience in a nonunionized workplace in the same industry; hourly wages for women represented by a union are 4.7 percent higher on average than for nonunionized women with comparable characteristics.
Nonprofit Quarterly
November 13, 2024
In particular, the short-term holiday rental platform Airbnb has become a lightning rod for local anger at skyrocketing rental prices. A recent study from the Economic Policy Institute, a U.S.-based think tank, found that Airbnb’s “introduction and expansion in New York City … may have raised average rents by nearly $400 annually for city residents.” And in Barcelona, rental prices have risen by a staggering 68 percent in less than a decade.
Yahoo News
November 12, 2024
Repealing the ACA without a replacement would leave most enrollees without health insurance. Those people would visit health care providers less often, possibly costing the industry 1.2 million jobs, the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute calculated.
Houston Chronicle
November 12, 2024
“Generally speaking, voters still want policies that improve job quality and strengthen protections for workers,” said David Cooper, director of the Economic Analysis and Research Network at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank based in Washington, D.C. “That is what we’ve seen virtually anytime a ballot measure on the minimum wage is put forward”
Pluribus News
November 12, 2024