We are nearly at the 100 day mark of Donald Trump’s presidency and EPI’s Perkins Project is acting as the watchdog of Trump, Congress and the courts―shining a spotlight on the issues that impact working people.
Click here to read the ten most important policy actions taken by President Trump that impact working people.
Donald Trump has sided with Wall Street over working people when he instructed the Department of Labor to reconsider the “fiduciary rule,” which would have stopped unscrupulous financial “advisers” from fleecing retirement savers out of billions of dollars.
Donald Trump has signaled that he will sign a resolution letting employers hide fatal injuries that happen on their watch. Once he does, employers can fail to maintain―or falsify―their injury and illness logs, making them less likely to suffer the consequences when workers are injured or killed.
Donald Trump is siding with dishonest and unsafe private contractors over responsible contractors and working people. On March 27, President Trump killed the Obama-era Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces rule, which would have required that companies vying for lucrative government contracts disclose workplace violations including failure to pay workers.
Read the Perkins Project’s full report: How President Trump and congressional Republicans are undercutting wages and protections for working people.
Earlier this year, the Economic Policy Institute launched the Perkins Project on Worker Rights and Wages―lead by former Obama Department of Labor Chief Economist Heidi Shierholz.
The Perkins Project is a policy response team tracking the wage and employment policies coming out of the White House, Congress, and the courts. This watchdog unit of economists and lawyers keeps an especially close eye on the federal agencies that establish and defend workers’ rights, wages, and working conditions, including the Department of Labor, the National Labor Relations Board, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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