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• A Good Deal for California Gig Companies Is Bad for Their Workers

  What happened in California? Despite the state’s liberal reputation, voters there last week approved Proposition 22, a ballot initiative exempting many gig companies from state workplace laws and stripping their workers of basic, essential protections.

  The New York Times | November 13, 2020
• A Look At The Top Biden Economic Influencers

  5. Heidi Shierholz– Economic Policy Institute (EPI)

  Shierholz’s policy team at EPI focuses on “wage and employment policies coming out of Congress and the Administration and advances a worker-first policy agenda.”

  Chief Executive | November 13, 2020
• Biden COVID Adviser Calls for Strict National Lockdown Measures

  “According to the Economic Policy Institute, 39 percent of workers in the United States are in essential categories.

  Western Journal | November 13, 2020
• Biden heredará una economía maltrecha con alto desempleo que aún puede empeorar antes de fin de año

  Cuando Biden se mude a la Casa Blanca en enero, le quedará la parte más difícil de la recuperación. “Biden enfrentará una crisis en aumento, no menguante”, indicó Elise Gould, economista de Economic Policy Institute, a NBC News.

  Telemundo | November 13, 2020
• El empleo ralentiza su mejora a apenas semanas del fin de las ayudas por la pandemia

  Como recuerda Heidi Shierholz del Economic Policy Institute, ya suman 34 las semanas seguidas en las que el total de las peticiones de ayuda al desempleo superan a la peor semana de la Gran Recesión de 2008. Si se eliminan las PUA, las demandas están tres veces por encima de lo que estaban hace un año.

  El Diario | November 13, 2020
• Joe Biden aims to raise federal minimum wage to $15 an hour: Here’s where things stand now in each state

  The result “says a lot about how much voters in both parties are looking for government and policymakers to do something about the state of wages in America right now,” David Cooper, senior economic analyst at the Economic Policy Institute, said recently. “People want to see their paychecks grow, and this is a very easy, straightforward way to do it for a lot of people.”

  Acorns | November 13, 2020
• How Biden might use executive power to advance economic agenda

  “The Trump administration did not feel bound by whether actions were legal in many cases, and the Biden administration, appropriately, will be more careful,” said the Economic Policy Institute’s Heidi Shierholz, who was chief economist at the Labor Department during the Obama administration and is now considered a contender for Biden’s Council of Economic Advisors.

  The Hill | November 13, 2020

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