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JEC Logo JEC Logo Skip to main content United States Congress Joint Economic Committee About Hearings Annual Reports Democrats Members Publications Press Center Receive Updates Republicans Joint Economic...to record lows As the United States continues its recovery from the pandemic recession immigrant workers are essential to the continued growth of the labor force and overall productivity In order to continue...U S economy needs more foreign born workers to drive innovation and business formation The United States is currently experiencing a shortfall in the number of immigrant workers This has exacerbated service...

JEC Logo JEC Logo Skip to main content United States Congress Joint Economic Committee About Hearings Annual Reports Democrats Members Publications Press Center Receive Updates Republicans Joint Economic...to implement There are currently no federal heat related protections for workers and very few state laws protectingworkers from these dangerous working conditions More than 500 000 farmworkers could benefit...Administration NOAA and the Environmental Protection Agency EPA are essential to better understand how heat and wildfire smoke contribute to farmworker deaths Hazard pay during extreme weather events and...

JEC Logo JEC Logo Skip to main content United States Congress Joint Economic Committee About Hearings Annual Reports Democrats Members Publications Press Center Receive Updates Republicans Joint Economic...Joint Economic Committee s Democratic staff estimates that the total cost of flooding in the United States is between 179 8 and 496 0 billion each year in 2023 dollars The graph below shows the lower bound...economy This range was calculated based on existing research on the effects of flooding in the United States Each underlying study focused on specific costs like damage to infrastructure lost economic output...

JEC Logo JEC Logo Skip to main content United States Congress Joint Economic Committee About Hearings Annual Reports Democrats Members Publications Press Center Receive Updates Republicans Joint Economic...Committee and Senate Banking Committee as they pointed to the report s finding scores of seriously affected communities from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt to the Northeast Sen Schumer said As subprime mortgage...of increasing concentrated foreclosures throughout the country While lenders and banks figure out how to insure themselves from the consequences of increased subprime mortgage defaults local communities...

Skip to main content United States Congress Joint Economic Committee About Hearings Annual Reports Republicans Democrats Search Newsroom Members 2025 Joint Economic Report Data and research Employment...Chairman David Schweikert released the following statement after the total public debt of the United States reached a new record high of 37 trillion June 13 2025 ICYMI JEC Hearing on the Barriers to Supply...to Supply Chain Modernization and Factor Productivity Enhancement Members engaged with witnesses on how smart regulation and harnessing cutting edge technology can be prioritized to enhance America s supply...

Skip to main content United States Congress Joint Economic Committee About Hearings Annual Reports Republicans Democrats Search Newsroom Members 2025 Joint Economic Report Data and research Employment...Chairman David Schweikert released the following statement after the total public debt of the United States reached a new record high of 37 trillion June 13 2025 ICYMI JEC Hearing on the Barriers to Supply...to Supply Chain Modernization and Factor Productivity Enhancement Members engaged with witnesses on how smart regulation and harnessing cutting edge technology can be prioritized to enhance America s supply...

JEC Logo JEC Logo Skip to main content United States Congress Joint Economic Committee About Hearings Annual Reports Democrats Members Publications Press Center Receive Updates Republicans Joint Economic...LFPR while the child care funds were available and the largest decrease once the funds expired The overall increase in participation for prime age women over the last year is hiding that many mothers of young...women with young kids seeing the largest uptick To get a better sense of how ARP child care funding affected LFPR JEC staff compared how civilian participation rates changed between September 2019 and September...

United States Congress Joint Economic Committee About Hearings Annual Reports Democrats Members Publications Press Center Receive Updates Republicans Joint Economic Committee Democrats Salon Here s how much...corruption could be doing June 1 2017 Print Facebook Twitter Email Matthew Rozsa If you want to understand how President Donald Trump s numerous conflicts of interest will impact ordinary citizens like you a new...Committee say that Trump is likely doing economic harm by flaunting the laws and conventions of good governance that made the United States a cornerstone of the global economy in a staff report The report called...

JEC Logo JEC Logo Skip to main content United States Congress Joint Economic Committee About Hearings Annual Reports Democrats Members Publications Press Center Receive Updates Republicans Joint Economic...businesses while disrupting finance and international trade Not only would government spending be affected but private businesses would see their operations impacted Businesses would face delayed loans mortgage...delay purchases or are forced to miss regular bill payments A 2019 study found that the states that would be most affected by a government shutdown outside the D C area included New Mexico Hawaii Alaska West...

JEC Logo JEC Logo Skip to main content United States Congress Joint Economic Committee About Hearings Annual Reports Democrats Members Publications Press Center Receive Updates Republicans Joint Economic...territories This exclusion largely stems from inconsistent or ambiguous coverage of the territories in the laws that govern the principal statistical agencies For example the authorizing statute for the Bureau...the same level of detail and are not always released at the same time as data collected for the 50 states and the District of Columbia This forces policymakers to make decisions about economic development...