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• Domestic workers added to Colorado’s employment discrimination protections
  … to a report by the Economic Policy Institute. Domestic workers are also disproportionately older, foreign-born and living in poverty.
  Colorado Politics June 10, 2022
• Firms claim to create 333K new jobs in May as jobless rate stays at 3.6 percent

  Economic Policy Institute President Heidi Shierholz and senior analyst Elise Gould both noted private sector employment is only 0.2 percent below its numbers of February 2020. That was the last full month before the coronavirus plague shut down half the economy and threw it—and jobs—into a depression.

  People’s World June 10, 2022
• Wages are still growing in many sectors that need that growth

  Income growth varied depending on the sector. Mining and logging and construction saw some of the biggest gains. In time for summer, wages in the leisure and hospitality sector increased, said Elise Gould of the Economic Policy Institute.

  Marketplace June 10, 2022
• Level Playing Field

  Features Daniel Costa discussing immigration and visa reform.

  HBO June 10, 2022
• May jobs report: Young workers are entering a uniquely evolving U.S. labor market

  The acute employment losses during the coronavirus recession were most severe in many industries that disproportionately employ young people, an analysis from the Economic Policy Institute found, with the unemployment rate for young workers ages 16 to 24 rising to 24.4 percent in spring 2020, more than twice the rate of workers 25 and older. 

  Washington Center for Equitable Growth June 10, 2022
• What the May jobs numbers tell us about recession fears

   As the Economic Policy Institute’s Heidi Shierholz said, despite falling below the “blistering average pace” of per-month job growth over the last year, the May jobs total is still “extremely strong.”  

  The Week June 10, 2022
• CEOs are enjoying huge paydays while their workers struggle to pay bills

  During the first year of the pandemic, CEO pay overall jumped 19% — even as many of their businesses ground to a halt, according to the Economic Policy Institute, which tracks 350 of the largest US companies. The latest EPI report shows top CEOs were paid 351 times as much as a typical worker in 2020.

  CNN June 10, 2022
• ‘This is our time’: How women are taking over the labor movement

  The pandemic, which set off the first women’s recession, might be that next catalyst, said Jennifer Sherer, the senior state policy coordinator at the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank. 

  The 19th June 10, 2022
• The Fed Risks Future Pain If It Fails to Curb Inflation Today

  Josh Bivens, the head of research at the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank, is worried. “If we have a recession because the Fed moves too fast and too high on interest rate hikes, that will be a clear mistake,” he recently told Huffington Post.

  Bloomberg June 10, 2022
• Inflation Is Sending State Wage Floors Above $15 An Hour
  … policies that workers’ advocates praise but employers’ attorneys fear could … according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. (paywall)
  Law 360 June 10, 2022