This Week’s Top Hits

Patricia Campos-Medina, executive director of the Worker Institute, discusses Pope Leo XIV's inauguration as a hopeful moment for unions and workers.

Art Wheaton, director of labor studies, explains why tariffs aren’t a simple fix for economic development.

“There are a number of changes to the civil service that make it much easier for the administration to try to interfere with the activities of the statistical agencies and that worries me,” says Erica Groshen, senior labor market advisor at ILR.

Erica Groshen joins EconoFact Chats to discuss the history and the role of the BLS, the importance of good data for decision-making by government, businesses, and families, and her concerns about political interference degrading the integrity of government statistics.

Lee Adler discusses the Trump administration cancelling the first bargaining session with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's worker's union.

Art Wheaton, senior extension associate at the ILR Buffalo Co-Lab, says, “Everything is pretty good now, I don't think the full impact of those tariffs has hit yet.”