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The China trade toll: Widespread wage suppression, 2 million jobs lost in the U.S.

Between 2001 and 2007, 2.3 million American jobs were lost due to the China trade gap, including 366,000 last year. As a result of the trade deficit, every state lost good-paying jobs, and lost wages surpassed $19 million in 2007. As the nation's economic woes mount, a new study, The China Trade Toll, details the devastating impact that the growing U.S. trade deficit with China is having on American jobs, wages, and key industries.
200807

BP219 $ 5

A Decade of Decline: The Erosion of Employer-Provided Health Care in the United States and California, 1995-2006

Holding on to health care is getting much harder, even if you have a good job, and a good education, and especially if you are a full-time worker of prime working age. In an new Briefing Paper, A Decade of Decline: The Erosion of Employer-Provided Health Care in the United States and California, 1995-2006, EPI economists Jared Bernstein and Heidi Shierholz demonstrate that the dramatic drop in employer-provided coverage has occurred across the entire age, education, occupation, industry, race, and ethnicity spectrum. Moreover, the decline in employer-provided coverage is caused by employers cutting coverage within existing jobs, rather than the shifting of jobs from high-coverage industries like manufacturing to lower-coverage industries.

200804

BP209 $ 5

The Wal-Mart effect: Its Chinese imports have displaced nearly 200,000 U.S. jobs

The Wal-Mart Effect
The world's largest retailer contributed about $27 billion to the United States' trade deficit with China in 2006. How many U.S. jobs got displaced as a result of Wal-Mart importing all of these Chinese goods? This EPI Issue Brief has the answer.

200706

IB235 $ 0.00

The Need For Adequate Resources For At-Risk Children

The Need For Adequate Resources For At-Risk Children
In this working paper, Whitney C. Allgood analyzes the multiple risk factors that predict greater rates of school failure for disadvantaged children, and summarizes the research on the additional resources needed if disadvantaged children are to receive an adequate education. Included in these additional resources are smaller schools, reduced class size, one-on-one tutoring in the context of before- and after-school programming, early childhood intervention and education, efforts to increase the supply and retention of high-quality teachers to high-poverty schools, summer school, and school-based access to health services for students and their immediate families.

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wp277 $ 5

Trade deficits and manufacturing job loss: Correlation and causality

The relationship between the U.S. trade deficits in manufactured goods and manufacturing employment is simple: As the trade deficit rises, labor demand declines. But recent challenges to this relationship have claimed that U.S. trade deficits had minimal or even no impact on job loss. The EPI Briefing Paper, Trade Deficits and Manufacturing Job Loss: Correlation and Causality, takes these recent challenges to task and shows how the trade deficit accounted for over a fifth of the job loss in manufacturing between 2000 and 2003.

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BP171 $ 5

Racing To The Bottom: How Antiquated Public Policy Is Destroying the Best Jobs in Telecommunications
Jeffrey H. Keefe

While cell phones, high-speed Internet access, interactive cable, and satellite TV services have become commonplace features of the new century, telecommunications policy remains an antiquated remnant of the old one. The unintended consequence of these federal and state policies is to support the worst employers with favorable tax and regulatory treatment, while greatly disadvantaging good employers and their workers and unions. EPI's book, Racing to the Bottom, explains why the FCC and Congress need to re-examine current telecommunications policy and create a level playing field to encourage competition across the growing number of traditional and innovative access technologies that make up U.S. telecommunications.

Book, 52 pages, paper, 6" x 9", May 2005

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1-932066-19-5 $ 11.5

Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, No Jobs: Labor Markets and Informal Work in Egypt, El Salvador, India, Russia, and South Africa
Tony Avirgan, Josh Bivens, Sarah Gammage

Informal employment is an issue of growing significance in the developing world. When workers cannot find opportunities in traditional wage employment, they often turn to informal work such as day labor, street vending, or domestic employment.

But there is reason for concern about the increasing international reliance on informal employment. Informal employment is often characterized by poor working conditions, low pay, and a lack of basic labor standards for workers. Improving the economic position of informal workers is therefore a powerful potential lever for raising living standards and reducing poverty in the developing world.

The studies collected in this volume analyze in detail the informal work situation in five countries: Egypt, El Salvador, India, Russia, and South Africa. In addition to identifying informal employment trends, Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, No Jobs also outlines an ideal and comprehensive response to workforce development, with a specific focus on the working poor in the informal economy.

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Book, 502 pages, paper, 6" x 9", March 2005

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1-932066-17-9 $ 19.95

Assessing Job Quality: How Factcheck.org got it wrong
Elise Gould, Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein, Lee Price

Using jobs data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the voter-advocacy group Factcheck.org recently weighed in on the debate over the quality of the jobs being added to the U.S. workforce. Factcheck.org purported to find "good evidence that job quality has increased over the past year or more." EPI�s Issue Brief, Assessing Job Quality, shows that Factcheck.org�s analysis is flawed, and the BLS data do not support this conclusion. In fact, the evidence shows that the industry and occupation categories growing most quickly over the past year pay less than those growing at a slower pace.

Issue Brief #200, 5 pages, 8 1/2" x 11", paper, July 2004
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200407

IB200 $ 0.00

You're in Good Hands With Social Security : But Privatization Proposals Would Unravel Its Ability to Insure Against Loss of Income, Disability, and Death
Christian Weller, Michelle Bragg

In its latest report, President Bush's Commission to Strengthen Social Security launched another strange attack on Social Security, this time calling it a bad deal for women and African Americans. Like its recent argument about the trust fund, this one lacks both common sense and the facts to back it up. Read You�re in Good Hands With Social Security for an analysis of how the program's insurance features make it an excellent security arrangement for women, African Americans, children, and low-wage workers.
Issue Brief #161, 8 1/2" x 11", June 2001
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IB161 $ 0.00

Declare a Prosperity Dividend: A stimulating idea for the U.S. economy
Eileen Appelbaum, Richard B. Freeman

Declare a prosperity dividend With recent economic indicators suggesting that the risk of recession has become acute, what kind of policies would help get the economy back on track? President Bush has proposed a tax cut that would go mostly to the already wealthy, but a better way to stimulate the economy would be to use part of the current budget surplus to declare a "prosperity dividend." Each U.S. resident could receive a check from the U.S. government for $500, which would put money into the hands of those who would put it back into the economy by spending it on goods or services.
Issue Brief #150, 8 1/2" x 11", 3 pages, February 2001
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IB150 $ 0.00