Unions and the Economic Policy Institute filed suit in federal district court in Washington, D.C., to keep Musk and DOGE out of U.S. Labor Department files, following a suit by the Alliance for Retired Americans and others to keep them out of the personal files held by the U.S. Treasury.
MarketWatch
February 7, 2025
There may have been a point in the 1980s and 1990s when America’s widening trade deficit began to cause problems again. 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 between 1979 and 1994, with hundreds of thousands resulting from the 1992 North American Free Trade Agreement alone
NBC News
February 7, 2025
In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a 2023 bill that would have paid striking workers, saying the move would cost too much at a time the state was already struggling to pay out other unemployment claims. Past proposals in more than half a dozen other states have failed to make it to the governor’s desk, according to a tally by the Washington, D.C.-based Economic Policy Institute.
Oregon Public Radio
February 7, 2025
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