Heidi Shierholz
President at Economic Policy Institute
President, @EconomicPolicy. Board member, @EPIaction. Former Chief Economist, US Dept of Labor. Bike commuter, backyard beekeeper. Tweets my own. She/her.
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4 weeks ago |
epi.org | Heidi Shierholz
President Trump dismantling collective bargaining rights from more than a million federal workers is pure political retribution. The administration has selectively revoked collective bargaining rights from federal workers represented by unions that are fighting against the administration’s efforts to tear down the federal government and the core services it provides. This is the behavior of an autocrat who grants rights to those who bow down to him and strips the rights of those who challenge him.
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4 weeks ago |
epi.org | Heidi Shierholz
In a move that starkly exposes just how disingenuous the Trump administration’s pro-worker rhetoric really is, President Trump rescinded the Biden administration’s executive order that increased the minimum wage for workers on federal contracts. The Biden-era rule implementing that executive order raised the minimum wage for workers on federal contractors to $15 an hour in 2022 and indexed it to inflation going forward. As of January 1, it was $17.75 an hour.
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1 month ago |
epi.org | Heidi Shierholz
Chair Walberg, Ranking Member Scott, and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today. My name is Heidi Shierholz, and I am an economist and the president of the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) in Washington, D.C. EPI is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank created in 1986 to include the needs of low- and middle-wage workers in economic policy discussions.
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2 months ago |
epi.org | Heidi Shierholz
The hacking of U.S. Treasury payment systems and Office of Personnel Management (OPM) databases by Elon Musk’s team with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is reckless, illegal, and unconstitutional. While we have very different fiscal priorities than the Trump administration, the method for enacting these policy priorities should be the same for everyone: pass a law.
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2 months ago |
portside.org | Margaret Poydock |Celine McNicholas |Jennifer Sherer |Heidi Shierholz
16 Million Workers Were Unionized in 2024 Published February 3, 2025 Interest in union organizing is surging in the United States. Since 2021, petitions for union elections at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) have more than doubled. And public support for unions is near 60-year highs—at 70%.
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