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
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
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
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
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
The Economic Policy Institute released a study this fall that projected that more than 563,000 workers in Michigan would earn over $1.3 billion in additional wages each year. For the 100,000 tipped workers who would benefit, it would mean a $6,669 raise. Women and people of color would likely benefit the most, as they make less on average in tipped service positions, and often have to endure harassment from customers who control their wages.
More Perfect Union
February 4, 2025
Economic objections have also been raised. Dr. Josh Bivens of the Economic Policy Institute previously told Newsweek that “the long-term consequences would be catastrophic” and “guaranteed to cause a steep recession” as federal grant funding is pulled out of the economy.
Newsweek
February 4, 2025
In a statement, the Economic Policy Institute warned that freezing federal funding “risks throwing the U.S. economy into chaos.”
The statement, written by Samantha Sanders and Josh Bivens, warned that risks increased the longer uncertainty over federal funding persisted.
“The federal government gives $1 trillion in grants to state and local governments alone, for everything from physical infrastructure and public safety to health and social services,” they wrote. “Removing this money from the economy would represent a huge economic shock.”
Kansas City Beacon
February 4, 2025
Research by the progressive Economic Policy Institute shows union workers earn about 10.2% more in hourly wages, and even nonunion workers benefit in highly unionized industries.
Minnesota Reformer
February 4, 2025
Nina Mast, a policy and economic analyst for the Economic Policy Institute, said it is just the start of combatting illegal child labor in the Commonwealth.
Public News Service
February 4, 2025