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Graduate students and research assistants at many private colleges and universities are organizing for higher wages. A new<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fepi.us4.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3Dec2361f981a14ee1d45cccaa9%26id%3D7fd281ad63%26e%3D446a0a5f1e&data=02%7C01%7C%7C3f86910488ce46d7c3c208d55b504e86%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636515322831263959&sdata=BS24JIJXfOnF2Gyha1GuMMEOmVvs69tRSEIzq63Xg6E%3D&reserved=0" style="color: rgb(0, 144, 180); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" class="">EPI
report</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>reviews the context for graduate student organizing and argues that they should be able to unionize. Colleges and universities are increasingly relying on graduate teaching assistants and contingent faculty,
who play an integral role in producing research and providing quality education. And yet the pay graduate teaching and research assistants receive rarely rises to the level of a living wage. <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fepi.us4.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3Dec2361f981a14ee1d45cccaa9%26id%3Dc337c375a1%26e%3D446a0a5f1e&data=02%7C01%7C%7C3f86910488ce46d7c3c208d55b504e86%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636515322831263959&sdata=ShGEww80vGGPsAJN6SX0r4SNwjIqL%2FJ3MSis45B2sa4%3D&reserved=0" style="color: rgb(0, 144, 180); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" class="">Read
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worst ways President Trump and Congress have betrayed working Americans</a></h2>
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In time for the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, EPI released a new feature<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fepi.us4.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3Dec2361f981a14ee1d45cccaa9%26id%3Df3bdb55902%26e%3D446a0a5f1e&data=02%7C01%7C%7C3f86910488ce46d7c3c208d55b504e86%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636515322831263959&sdata=060pYI%2Bu7zY4%2BkkPHyPgYo5gW6UyhbGBaX%2B6CBK8ARE%3D&reserved=0" style="color: rgb(0, 144, 180); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" class="">recapping
10 actions</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>by Trump and Congress that hurt workers the most during Trump’s first year. President Trump and Congress further rigged the economy in favor of the wealthy by rolling back important worker protections,
advancing nominees to key administration posts who have a history of exploiting working people, and taking other actions that undermine pay growth and erode working conditions for the nation’s workers. EPI’s<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fepi.us4.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3Dec2361f981a14ee1d45cccaa9%26id%3Df8303c07ac%26e%3D446a0a5f1e&data=02%7C01%7C%7C3f86910488ce46d7c3c208d55b504e86%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636515322831263959&sdata=2Kub9%2BocaCaYMXOYzi15m38nluE%2BjoNopTUfA9BEgoQ%3D&reserved=0" style="color: rgb(0, 144, 180); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" class="">Policy
Watch</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>tracker will continue to spotlight actions by the Trump administration, Congress, and federal agencies to weaken workers’ rights.</td>
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in work visa programs is needed to fight human trafficking</a></h2>
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On Thursday, January 11, EPI’s Daniel Costa joined members of Congress from both sides of the aisle as they announced a measure to combat human trafficking by increasing the transparency of workers’ activities and whereabouts. If enacted, the Visa Transparency
Anti-Trafficking Act of 2018 would create a standardized reporting system across all guestworker visa categories and require that this information be made public. Costa, who is the director of immigration law and policy research at EPI, has published estimates
of the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fepi.us4.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3Dec2361f981a14ee1d45cccaa9%26id%3Dd4bd89103f%26e%3D446a0a5f1e&data=02%7C01%7C%7C3f86910488ce46d7c3c208d55b504e86%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636515322831263959&sdata=Ef0Y4iq3zPoh3OiOdoAAgTUflJHPSeB34e38XrIsb9Y%3D&reserved=0" style="color: rgb(0, 144, 180); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" class="">numbers
of temporary migrant workers employed by visa classification</a>. But those estimates are based on limited data because no official government estimates exist by visa class. Without the greater transparency called for by the bill, millions of workers could
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<strong class="">From the EPI blog</strong></h2>
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grants access to paid sick days to 700,000 workers and their families</a><br class="">
<span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">By Elise Gould, Jessica Schieder</span></li></ul>
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for public sector union rights 50 years after MLK’s assassination</a><br class="">
<span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">By Marni von Wilpert</span></li></ul>
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analysis of January 1 state minimum wage changes understated the total increase in wages for workers throughout the country</a><br class="">
<span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">By David Cooper, Janelle Jones</span></li></ul>
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search for the next president of the New York Federal Reserve is a big deal</a><br class="">
<span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">By Josh Bivens</span></li></ul>
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NAFTA is an opportunity to get trade policy right</a><br class="">
<span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">By Owen E. Herrnstadt</span></li></ul>
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economy has made great strides since the recession, but weakness remains</a><br class="">
<span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">By Elise Gould</span></li></ul>
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<a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fepi.us4.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3Dec2361f981a14ee1d45cccaa9%26id%3D5bbb71d509%26e%3D446a0a5f1e&data=02%7C01%7C%7C3f86910488ce46d7c3c208d55b504e86%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636515322831263959&sdata=0gZpY56ZfQHDQxN%2FedsDg46u1L%2Bp6g6pZCzc5Bdwhb4%3D&reserved=0" style="color: rgb(0, 144, 180); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" class=""><em class="">The
Atlantic</em></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>quoted EPI’s Valerie Wilson about a crucial fact that President Trump glossed over when he sent a tweet taking credit for the record low black unemployment rate. While the economic policies of the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em class="">past
decade</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>helped lower the black unemployment rate, the 6.8 percent unemployment rate of black Americans is still much higher than the 4.1 percent unemployment rate of white Americans. “If we had an overall unemployment
rate of 6.8 percent, nobody would be cheering about that,” said Wilson, director of EPI’s Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy. |<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fepi.us4.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3Dec2361f981a14ee1d45cccaa9%26id%3Dfec6b27c41%26e%3D446a0a5f1e&data=02%7C01%7C%7C3f86910488ce46d7c3c208d55b504e86%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636515322831263959&sdata=8INUkyFKOirtcRMkIyd2%2FruJngIANhFEE2T4S7Aikd8%3D&reserved=0" style="color: rgb(0, 144, 180); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" class="">The
Black and Hispanic Unemployment Rates Don't Deserve Applause »</a></td>
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EPI President Thea Lee about inequality and declining working class power. While Lee decried the “brilliant exploitation of that inequality to create racial and other divisions within the working class,” she expressed hope that progressives could “put forward
a powerful set of pro-worker policies” and “show what a non-racist, non-xenophobic, non-sexist, non-divisive real populism looks like.” |<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fepi.us4.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3Dec2361f981a14ee1d45cccaa9%26id%3Dad06dfb3f6%26e%3D446a0a5f1e&data=02%7C01%7C%7C3f86910488ce46d7c3c208d55b504e86%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636515322831263959&sdata=GOMLxE%2FeXHnA42Zk8UlC0kePJo%2FU6ATJxqXh3PQ%2BCQo%3D&reserved=0" style="color: rgb(0, 144, 180); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" class="">The
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the same root cause: the policy-induced shift of economic leverage and bargaining power away from typical workers and towards corporate managers and owners of capital,” said Bivens. |<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fepi.us4.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3Dec2361f981a14ee1d45cccaa9%26id%3D78ee214c90%26e%3D446a0a5f1e&data=02%7C01%7C%7C3f86910488ce46d7c3c208d55b504e86%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636515322831263959&sdata=IFp0PAJ07h%2BdZ2xz9JVLS%2B9XsfjpHB27B%2FqM7%2FVuo2o%3D&reserved=0" style="color: rgb(0, 144, 180); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" class="">How
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EPI Senior Economist Elise Gould spoke to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fepi.us4.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3Dec2361f981a14ee1d45cccaa9%26id%3D463d6b4129%26e%3D446a0a5f1e&data=02%7C01%7C%7C3f86910488ce46d7c3c208d55b504e86%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636515322831263959&sdata=IyK5C3rRLo%2F2B38UvC6C9uTECnJ01PWDCnBOvhJZwEU%3D&reserved=0" style="color: rgb(0, 144, 180); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" class="">NPR’s<em class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Planet
Money</em></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>about one of her favorite economic indicators in the federal government’s monthly jobs report—the share of people age 25 to 54 who have a job. The share is now 79.1 percent. This suggests that even
after years of economic recovery, there are still a lot of workers waiting in the wings, which has held down wage growth, Gould explained. |<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fepi.us4.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3Dec2361f981a14ee1d45cccaa9%26id%3D09d25b1aeb%26e%3D446a0a5f1e&data=02%7C01%7C%7C3f86910488ce46d7c3c208d55b504e86%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636515322831263959&sdata=2Rt7qPtWx0MuwY7Z0%2BKeYTjG1tcFHTUeqmjfxdxBjLc%3D&reserved=0" style="color: rgb(0, 144, 180); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" class="">Hidden
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their families,” Jones said. |<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fepi.us4.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3Dec2361f981a14ee1d45cccaa9%26id%3Ddc96cc55a5%26e%3D446a0a5f1e&data=02%7C01%7C%7C3f86910488ce46d7c3c208d55b504e86%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636515322831263959&sdata=C7TjgNvNSPCcN2Br3f5TKbZzAknTgRFcTB6XxZmHjxw%3D&reserved=0" style="color: rgb(0, 144, 180); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" class="">A
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