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• Adam Hersh on GrayTV

  Adam Hersh, senior economist, economic policy institute: “it’s getting more and more likely every day on this policy path that the president is pursuing that we’re going to have a recession this year. this is all and unforced error that the president has accomplished in, you know, a little over two months in office.”

  GrayTV | April 4, 2025
• Adam Hersh on Trump tariffs

  Economic Policy Institute senior economist Adam Hersh wants to see improved trade deals for the United States, but believes that there could have been better ways to go about it…Tariffs can be an effective tool for promoting industrial development when they’re done in a targeted and strategic way, but when there’s broad base across the entire world, across everything that we trade. There’s no sense to this. 

  CBS News Radio | April 4, 2025
• Lynn Rhinehart on FMCS and the impact of the anti-union executive order

  Lynn Rhinehart, a Senior Fellow at the Economic Policy Institute and former General Counsel of the AFL-CIO, joined the America’s Work Force Union Podcast to discuss the dismantling of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS), the broader implications of Trump’s executive orders on federal unions and potential consequences for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

  America's Work Force Union Podcast | April 4, 2025
• A record number of Americans are struggling to afford healthcare

  …billion in funding for Medicaid over the next 10 years. The Economic Policy Institutefound that these cuts to Medicaid could…[paywall]. 

  Business Insider | April 4, 2025
• Dow Jones plunges more than 1,600 points as stock market recoils from Trump tariff shock

  In contrast to his first term, when he implemented levies on roughly $380 billion worth of goods over four years, Mr. Trump has imposed more than $3 trillion in tariffs in the less than three months since his return to power, according to the Economic Policy institute, a left-leaning think tank. 

  CBS Moneywatch | April 4, 2025
• The powerful force behind Trump’s tariffs

  And those decades of high manufacturing employment witnessed exceptionally high rates of wage growth and economic mobility. Between 1948 and 1973, hourly compensation in the US climbed by 91.3 percent, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Over the ensuing 50 years, by contrast, hourly wages grew by just 9.2 percent.

  VOX | April 4, 2025
• Male teacher shortage continues to be a problem in Michigan

  Michigan’s teachers are paid less than the national average, with an average salary of about $67,000 per year compared to more than $69,500 nationwide in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Economic Policy Institute.

  Lansing City Pulse | April 4, 2025

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