Interview with Jared Bernstein. References his time at EPI. [Paywall].
The New Yorker
January 21, 2025
But an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute puts into doubt that there is a shortage of American tech workers. The 30 companies hiring the most H-1B workers took on 34,000 new H-1B employees in 2022 but laid off at least 85,000 workers that year and early in 2023.
Iron Mountain Daily News
January 21, 2025
Disproportionate harm to minority workers: Minority trade workers often rely on unions for equitable pay and job protections. Research shows that unionized workplaces significantly reduce wage gaps and provide greater economic mobility for underrepresented groups (Economic Policy Institute, 2020).
New Hampshire Union Leader
January 21, 2025
More than 1 in 4 U.S. workers is likely subject to a noncompete agreement, and more than half of businesses use them, according to a 2019 study by the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank.
Huffpost
January 21, 2025
Since 2019, immigration enforcement has been funded at a higher rate than labor standards enforcement, the Economic Policy Institute reported.
Eater
January 21, 2025
CHAKRABARTI: According to 2022 data from the Economic Policy Institute, the median income for Black workers is 21% less than the median income for white workers. Professor Smith-Bynum says Black parents also have to deal with the racial content their kids are exposed to online.
WBUR
January 21, 2025
According to figures by the Economic Policy Institute, the stock market posted an inflation-adjusted growth of 28.8% in 2024.
This was comfortably the strongest pre-transition market performance in decades, with the average being 6.5%.
Invezz
January 21, 2025
Orlando Sentinel
January 21, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute, wages for the top 1 percent of U.S. income earners skyrocketed nearly 182 percent from 1979 to 2023, compared to a growth of 43.7 percent for the bottom 90 percent. CEO pay growth in recent decades has similarly towered over that for the average worker, with top CEO compensation rising 1,085 percent from 1978 to 2023, compared with a 24 percent increase in pay for a typical worker.
Orlando Weekly
January 21, 2025
Some of the roles H-1B workers are hired to fill also involve less complicated jobs, like product testing, said Ronil Hira, an associate political science professor at Howard University and a research associate with the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. These roles don’t necessarily meet the visa program’s intended goal of outsourcing roles that require unique skills.
CBS Moneywatch
January 21, 2025