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• The Stephanie Ruhle Show

  Features interview with Nina Mast. 

  MSNBC | April 25, 2025
• DeSantis Pushing Bill to Lift Florida’s Teen Labor Laws

  According to the Economic Policy Institute, lawmakers, mostly Republicans, have sponsored bills to loosen teen workers’ restrictions.

  Newsmax | April 25, 2025
• Steel dossier: How government subsidies in other countries wrecked the U.S. steel industry

  The government-funded steel expansion flooded the world market with steel, reducing demand for the same period. In 2000, the U.S. had 10% of the world steel market, but that shrank to less than 5% in 2019, according to data from the Economic Policy Institute.

  Washington Times | April 25, 2025
• Virginia job numbers slip as revenue falls

  “The CES data are jobs data reported by Virginia-based employers … The LAUS data provides information on the employment status of Virginia residents, wherever they work,” said David Cooper, a labor economist at the Economic Policy Institute. That distinction matters in a place where thousands of residents cross into Washington, D.C. for federal jobs.

  Virginia has one of the country’s highest concentrations of federal employees and contractors, with over 144,000 residents either working in or tied to the federal workforce—many commute daily to agencies and contract roles in D.C. or Maryland.

  “It’s never a good idea to look at single-month changes in either of these surveys,” said David Cooper, a labor economist at the Economic Policy Institute. “The month-to-month patterns can reverse quickly just due to noise in the data.”

  The Center Square | April 25, 2025
• Cuts to Medicaid will disproportionately hurt people of color and children

  Progressive and conservative groups also tend to clash when it comes to interpreting workers’ desire to be classified as independent contractors; while Cassidy cited Bureau of Labor Statistics data that 80% of independent contractors prefer their classification, progressive think tank Economic Policy Institute has said many low-paying workers are misclassified and lose out on rights and benefits.

  HR Dive | April 25, 2025
• Medicaid cuts may unduly impact Black, Latino doctors, patients

  The Economic Policy Institute reported earlier this month that children could also be heavily affected if budget cuts were to impact Medicaid expansion or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). The proposed decreases to Medicaid funding could increase the number of uninsured children by about 12%, the think tank found.

  News Nation Now | April 25, 2025
• Tennessee lawmakers had a real shot to repeal the grocery tax, but they blew it

  We are told Tennessee is a low tax state, but in reality it is only a low tax state for big corporations. The Economic Policy Institute reports that more than 60% of companies filing in Tennessee pay zero in the state corporate income tax. That includes 24% of companies that report over $1 billion in revenue to the federal government, according to the Tennessee Department of Revenue as reported by Tennessee Senate Democrats.

  Tennessean | April 25, 2025

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