President Trump’s executive order to revoke federal funding for investments in manufacturing clean vehicle technologies portends a bleak future for the jobs and communities building big trucks and buses in the United States, our new report co-authored with the BlueGreen Alliance details.   Medium- and heavy-duty vehicles are a backbone of U.S. economic life. Transitioning these…

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31.01.2025

Paid sick leave improves workers’ health and the economy | Economic Policy Institute

Beginning this year, Americans in three more states—Alaska, Missouri, and Nebraska—will have access to paid sick leave, bringing the total number of states that provide paid sick leave up to 18 (plus Washington D.C.). These policies provide workers short-term leave to care for themselves or their family when they become sick. Paid sick leave laws…

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31.01.2025

DOGE is not worth engaging. You can’t cut your way to a federal government that does more. | Economic Policy Institute

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is the effort largely associated with Elon Musk. The stated goals are to reduce wasteful spending and eliminate unnecessary regulations. Unsurprisingly, the Trump administration and congressional Republicans are taking it seriously. More worryingly, there are good-faith proponents of improving the federal government’s capacity who seem willing to take it…

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01.02.2025

This week in Federal Policy Watch: Trump-Vance administration paralyzes worker protection agencies and leaves workers without ability to enforce the right to a union | Economic Policy Institute

The Trump-Vance administration continued to focus its policy initiatives on attacking the federal workforce and government services, beginning the week with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issuing a memo ending all federal grants and loans. That action—which would have ended funding for things like Head Start programs’ early childhood education services and cancer…

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Is Trump taking the wrong turn for U.S. truck manufacturing? | Economic Policy Institute

Paid sick leave improves workers’ health and the economy | Economic Policy Institute

DOGE is not worth engaging. You can’t cut your way to a federal government that does more. | Economic Policy Institute

This week in Federal Policy Watch: Trump-Vance administration paralyzes worker protection agencies and leaves workers without ability to enforce the right to a union | Economic Policy Institute

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