- The March jobs report was surprisingly strong given everything going on. Economic Policy Institute senior economist Elise Gould offered her insights here
The Valley Labor Report
April 14, 2025
BG: What’s going to happen to the cost of clothing?
Adam Hersh: A number of countries where we get a lot of consumer goods from, particularly … footwear and apparel, and lower-end consumer goods from Southeast Asia, they are getting hit with the highest tariffs. They also are some of the poorest countries: Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos are singled out for some of the highest tariff rates.
The Boston Globe
April 14, 2025
A 2018 report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) found that the U.S. trade deficit with China, between 2001 and 2017, eliminated American jobs in all 50 states and in every single congressional district across the country — a loss of 3.4 million American jobs.
Breitbart
April 14, 2025
According to an estimate by the non-profit Coalition for Prosperous America, the U.S. lost over 3 million jobs to China since 2001 and during that time, its trade deficit ballooned. A report from the Economic Policy Institute says that this has hurt certain groups, such as Black and Hispanic communities in the U.S., more than others.
Inside EVs
April 14, 2025
A White House press release published five days ago stated that the Trump tariffs during his first term had very little inflationary impact: “According to the Economic Policy Institute, the tariffs implemented by President Trump during his first term “clearly show[ed] no correlation with inflation” and had only a fleeting effect on overall prices.”
Vermont Daily Chronicle
April 14, 2025
Investors are eyeing how susceptible companies are to tariff impacts, including what they import and export and potential constraints on consumers, said Adam Hersh, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute.
Minnesota Star Tribune
April 14, 2025
Politifact
April 14, 2025
In testimony before the U.S. Senate in 1998, Robert Scott, an economist with the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, said trade imbalances had likely contributed to 2 million manufacturing job losses from 1979 to 1994, with hundreds of thousands resulting from the 1992 North American Free Trade Agreement alone — a pact Trump repeatedly criticized before replacing it with the United States-Mexico-Canada-Agreement in 2018.
NBC News
April 14, 2025
President Trump vowed there will be no pause to his wave of global tariffs. Despite the negative impact on the markets, and the increasing uncertainty about small and large businesses alike, the president promises his tariff plan will revive America’s manufacturing sector. Josh Bivens, chief economist at the Economic Policy Institute, joins to discuss.
CBS Evening News Plus
April 14, 2025
Maryland also has one of the highest proportions of Black workers in the country, with African Americans accounting for over 30 percent of the state’s labor force according to the Economic Policy Institute.
The Baltimore Afro American Online
April 13, 2025