Seven states have enacted similar legislation, according to an analysis by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. The trend took off in state legislatures particularly in the past two years, with about 15 states since 2022 introducing similar bills, according to EPI.
Chicago Tribune
May 20, 2024
Over the past few years, immigration has helped the US’s economic rebound. According to an Economic Policy Institute analysis cited by The Washington Post, between January 2023 and January 2024, about 50% of the labor market’s growth was from foreign-born workers.
Business Insider
May 20, 2024
Research from the Economic Policy Institute indicates six states – Connecticut, Minnesota, Maine, Oregon, New York and Washington – have outlawed the meetings, while 10 other states, in addition to Illinois, introduced similar legislation within the last year.
Capitol News Illinois
May 20, 2024
Domestic workers—of which non-Hispanic Black, non-Hispanic Asian American and Pacific Islander, and Hispanic women together make up more than half, according to the Economic Policy Institute—have historically been left out of workers’ rights policies and protections.
WFMZ
May 14, 2024
Similarly, the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a progressive think tank, also expressed skepticism about USCIS’ ideas.
“The H-1B Modernization rule only tinkers at the edges of improving program integrity, but fails terribly to tackle any of the real problems that have been documented by investigative news reports, government audits, and researchers like ourselves— while simultaneously proposing to dramatically expand the size of an H-1B program that remains vulnerable to rampant fraud and abuse,” EPI said in a statement to The Register.
Latin Times
May 14, 2024
During the pandemic, here and nationally, low-wage workers saw their pay increase since many employers had difficulty filling positions. “In stark contrast to prior decades, low-wage workers experienced dramatically fast real wage growth between 2019 and 2023,” a recent report by the Washington-based Economic Policy Institute found.
Signal Cleveland
May 14, 2024
Those students who graduated from college during the global pandemic, the recession it induced and the topsy-turvy economic environment it left in its wake, have experienced a much faster bounce-back in the labor market and stronger wage growth than any recovery in recent history, according to new research by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI).
CNN Business
May 14, 2024
According to the Economic Policy Institute, the annual cost of infant care in Minnesota is $16,087, and the annual cost of child care for a four year old is $12,252. Currently the cost of child care for a typical family with an infant and four year old is about 37.4% of the family income.
KIMT
May 14, 2024
Subprime lenders targeted Black homebuyers and Black homeowners seeking refinancing. According to a study by the Economic Policy Institute, in 2006, just before the financial collapse, 52.9 percent of Black borrowers assumed a subprime mortgage compared to 47.3 percent of Hispanic borrowers and 26.1 percent of White borrowers. In the ensuing epidemic of foreclosures, Blacks suffered disproportionately.
American Prospect
May 14, 2024