There are more than 56,000 domestic workers in the Chicago metro area, according to a 2020 study by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). The study shows more than 90% of Chicago-area domestic workers are female, about half are either Black or Latino, and roughly 38% are immigrants, according to study findings provided by the Shriver Center. Many domestic workers are also undocumented, according to ARISE Chicago.
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January 14, 2022
Economic Policy Institute senior economist Elise Gould also chimed in, “Discrimination and occupational segregation and all sorts of other related factors have meant that outcomes for Black workers are worse in the labor market than that for white workers…That translates into historically a higher unemployment rate that’s about two times that of white workers throughout the business cycle.”
Essence
January 14, 2022
The economist shared a chart from Economic Policy Institute which showed that lower-wage sectors of the
New York Post
January 14, 2022
You can check the minimum wage in your state and what effect state law will have on future pay in a report from the Economic Policy Institute, which focuses on the poor and poorly paid workers.
dcreport
January 14, 2022
Daniel Costa, director of immigration at the Economic Policy Institute, noted that despite increased scrutiny during the Trump administration, the H-1B cap was still met every year.
Axios
January 14, 2022
Monique Morrissey, economist at the Economic Policy Institute, joins Yahoo Finance Live to discuss the state of the workforce now that middle-aged and older Americans have retired during the pandemic and how they could face age discrimination when they try to return to work.
Yahoo Finance
January 14, 2022
Around 29% of White workers are able to work from home, according to an Economic Policy Institute study in 2020. But fewer than one in five Black workers and roughly one in six Hispanic workers can work from home.
CNN Business
January 14, 2022
“Even though we had record quits in November, hires were greater than quits in every major industry,” tweeted Heidi Shierholz, chief economist at the Economic Policy Institute. “Job-quitters are taking other jobs, not dropping out of the labor force…This is good news!”
CNN Business
January 14, 2022
To catch up with population growth, the economy needs 5 million more jobs, said economist Elise Gould, of the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank. Before the recession, jobs were growing faster than population. To reach levels where employment would have been, had pre-pandemic job growth trends continued, the United States would have to add 8 million jobs, Gould said. And that will only get harder as federal stimulus programs run out.
Washington Post
January 14, 2022