- The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) “forecasts that Trump’s effort to deport 1 million immigrants a year will result in 5.9 million lost jobs after four years: 3.3 million fewer employed immigrants and 2.6 million fewer employed US-born workers. ‘If you don’t have immigrant roofers and framers, you’re not building houses, and that means electricians and plumbers lose their jobs.’ ‘Plus, you lose the consumer spending from those workers,’” and tens of billions of withheld tax revenues annually, one might add.
Common Dreams
September 15, 2025
The lack of immigrant labor not only fails to open doors to American-born workers, it also negatively impacts them, says Ben Zipperer, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a progressive think tank. In a recent report he explained that deportations also affect national workers in several ways. One of the most notable is the breakdown of the complementary ties that exist in jobs involving both foreign and native-born labor. The labor chain is broken. “when there are fewer immigrant roofers and framers to build the basic structure of homes, there will be less work available for U.S.-born electricians and plumbers,” he explains, providing an example that can be applied to other industries and cuts across several sectors.
El Pais
September 15, 2025
While wages have increased, the Economic Policy Institute found that productivity has grown more than three times faster than pay since 1979.
Newsweek
September 15, 2025
Walkinshaw’s district, a suburb of Washington, D.C., is home to a large number of federal workers and contractors, with a data analysis from the Economic Policy Institute released in March indicating that federal employees make up more than 8 percent of total employment in the district.
The Washington Post
September 15, 2025
Economists are raising concerns about the No Tax on Tips proposal. A report from the Economic Policy Institute argues the proposal would incentivize employers across industries to prompt for tips and reclassify workers to avoid paying minimum wage.
The Georgetowner
September 15, 2025
“The bulk of these revisions reflect 2024 data — in fact, despite the predictable angst they will generate from the White House, today’s revisions tell us very little about the state of Trump’s economy,” economists Elise Gould and Ben Zipperer of the Economic Policy Institute, an employment-focused think tank in Washington, said.
The Hill
September 15, 2025
There are lots of ways to measure the difference between what men and women earn, according to Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute.
You can compare hourly wages or annual salaries, control for factors like education and zip code or not, “and they’re all correct. They may be telling a slightly different story,” she said.
But Gould said the data consistently show a wide and stubborn gap, including the Census Bureau’s comparison of total earnings by year-round, full-time workers.
“As of 2024, full-time women are paid only 80.9% of what full-time men are paid,” Gould said.
Marketplace
September 15, 2025
That’s a $1,040 increase from 2023′s median, but the Census Bureau doesn’t consider the 1.3% change “statistically different.” The median income rose by roughly 4% between 2022 and 2023, which was the first statistically significant increase since 2019.
But just because the data isn’t statistically significant “doesn’t mean that it’s not economically meaningful for many households that their incomes rose,” Elise Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, tells CNBC Make It.
Though the prior period saw a larger increase with faster economic growth and inflation falling quicker, “you’re still beating out inflation … I think it’s still definitely a positive report,” she says.
CNBC
September 15, 2025
Indeed, the Economic Policy Institute has published extensively on how low quit rates are evidence of an imbalance called “monopsony power.”
Workers feel stuck because the cost of leaving is too high, and it means employers can underpay them. According to the institute’s research, a 10 percent pay cut causes only about 20 to 30 percent of workers to quit.
The Hill
September 15, 2025
However, revisions even of this size “are not corrections of mistakes,” the Economic Policy Institute said in a note published on Tuesday. “Revisions are part of the regular, transparent process to update employment counts with the most comprehensive data possible,” it added.
Newsweek
September 15, 2025