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Once current inventories are gone, the rest of 2025 could be rocky. “Our perspective in terms of how this will affect manufacturers and workers is that we’ll see a replay of the initial COVID shock,” said Jason Judd, executive director of the Global Labor Institute.

International students, says Professor Michael Lovenheim, “generate not only returns to themselves through higher wages, but they work in sectors that generate economic growth, they start businesses, they work in high-growth areas that generate more productivity and increase [Gross Domestic Product].”

Erica Groshen says the drop in staff and potential for cuts in funding could also threaten lesser-known economic measures, such as an index that tracks import prices, as well as a report that measures job openings.

"Workers are usually not seeking to stop the march of technology, they just want to have some control," notes Virginia Doellgast, a professor specializing in labor relations.

This piece references a recent op-ed in Science by ILR’s Erica Groshen.

This strengthens the arguments that eBay was not leaving Syracuse because it was losing money, but because the global auction giant did not want to deal with a unionized labor force, said Kate Bronfenbrenner, who studies unions and labor law.