“It’s mindbogglingly fast and sustained growth — well over half a million jobs added per month on average for more than a year,” Heidi Shierholz, president at the Economic Policy Institute, wrote on Twitter. More than nine out of every 10 jobs lost during the pandemic recession have been regained, she added.
CNN Business
March 11, 2022
“The phrase ‘little changed’ appears 12 times in the latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey for January 2022,” notes Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute.
Reuters
March 11, 2022
The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) projects there will be a demand for approximately 300,000 new teachers nationwide and a supply of just over 100,000 by 2024.
KTRE 9
March 11, 2022
“High quits are decidedly not translating into workers leaving the labor force in large numbers,” Elise Gould, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, said in a tweet. “In fact … we are seeing a steady return of workers back to the labor market (many of whom are getting jobs).”
CNBC
March 11, 2022
The contrast between the overall positive economic growth numbers and Biden’s negative poll numbers has flummoxed some economists who generally support the Democratic policies. “The disconnect is huge,” Heidi Shierholz, the president of the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning, pro-union think tank, told me this week. Like many following the issue, she wondered how much media coverage of the economy is to blame, noting that sometimes when she praises Biden’s job-creation record, “people think I’m saying talking points.”
Philadelphia Inquirer
March 11, 2022
Josh Bivens, research director of the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, wrote in an email to PolitiFact Texas the statement does not (paywall).
Austin American-Statesman
March 11, 2022
Elise Gould, senior economist with the Economic Policy Institute, noted that the rate of hiring remains higher than the rate of quitting in any industry, which means that when people quit, they’re moving to better jobs in the same industry rather than switching careers or leaving the workforce.
CNBC
March 11, 2022
But the reduction in supply was met with increased demand as Americans started purchasing durable goods to replace the services they used prior to the pandemic, said Josh Bivens, director of research at the Economic Policy Institute.
CNET
March 11, 2022
Our guests are: Anna Stansbury, Assistant Professor of Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Larry Mishel, a distinguished fellow at Economic Policy Institute in Washington DC.
Productivity Puzzles
March 11, 2022
“The Postal Service has been operating on a shoestring,” said Monique Morrissey, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute. She said the Postal Service workforce peaked 20 years ago at roughly 800,000. It’s now down to about 500 thousand workers. Email and online bill pay have driven down mail volumes and revenue.
Marketplace
March 11, 2022