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“In the electric vehicle segment, tariffs are a boon to fiercely anti-union Tesla, which will benefit from the disarray of competitors (including the Big Three) who need time to rethink production strategies and retool factories. Any new automotive jobs will be overwhelmingly nonunion,” says Ian Greer.

Erica Groshen, senior economics advisor at ILR and former commissioner of the BLS, is the guest on this episode of Stats and Stories. She discusseses the work of official statisticians and the obstacles they currently face.

The added costs from Trump's auto tariffs could reach as high as $20,000 per vehicle, Art Wheaton, director of labor studies, who studies the auto industry, told ABC News in a statement.

This piece references a 2023 paper by Assistant Professor Elio Nimier-David that showed that the creation of new colleges in France during the 1990s expanded access to education and resulted in increased new business formation.

According to a newly released report by the ILR Buffalo Co-Lab, women in Erie County earn roughly 88 cents for every dollar earned by a white man in the county.

Shift spoke with former Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erica Groshen on what the axing of two advisory groups means for the nation’s job data.