During the Covid-19 pandemic, Medicaid has done “the heavy lifting” in providing coverage for people who lost their job and employer-sponsored health insurance, according to an analysis from the Economic Policy Institute.
VOX
March 8, 2021
U.S. employers added more jobs than forecast in February and the unemployment rate declined, suggesting the labor market is clawing its way forward again following several disappointing months. Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, speaks with Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde, Romaine Bostick and Joe Weisenthal on “What’d You Miss?” about the U.S. jobs report.
Bloomberg TV
March 8, 2021
One Asian American woman recommended by Sanders was Thea Lee, the president of the Economic Policy Institute, who testified before his committee last month on wages, according to the person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to disclose private discussions. The lack of consultation with Sanders on Tanden was seen as a major misstep by the White House, considering his top role on the committee that would process the OMB job and Tanden’s history tangling with Sanders’s supporters in his 2016 presidential bid.
Washington Post
March 8, 2021
L’expansion de Medicaid réduit également la mortalité des patients: un document de travail publié en janvier a conclu que l’expansion de Medicaid avait entraîné 19 200 décès de moins au cours de ses quatre premières années. Une autre étude a révélé que l’expansion de Medicaid avait conduit à un meilleur accès aux soins médicaux, à une meilleure gestion de la maladie et à un meilleur bien-être financier des patients. Au cours de la pandémie de Covid-19, Medicaid a fait «le gros du travail» en fournissant une couverture aux personnes qui ont perdu leur emploi et une assurance maladie parrainée par l’employeur, selon une analyse de l’Economic Policy Institute.
France 24
March 8, 2021
Delivering a minimum wage increase before the midterm elections would give bragging rights to Democratic senatorial candidates in low minimum wage states. In North Carolina, 33% of workers would experience an increase in wages. Once the raise was fully implemented, the average annual benefit to a North Carolina worker who works year round would be $4,065, according to Capital & Main’s analysis of data released by the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute in a recent study. Workers in other states would reap similar benefits.
Capital and Main
March 8, 2021
The Economic Policy Institute reported that the minimum wage, if adjusted for inflation, should have already exceeded $15.
“Yet since the late 1960s, lawmakers have let the value of the minimum wage erode, allowing inflation to gradually reduce the buying power of a minimum wage income,” according to a 2019 report.
The Independent
March 8, 2021
“Every Democrat who voted against this $15 minimum wage amendment should face a primary challenger and be defeated,” said Lisa McCormick, who earned nearly 40 percent of the Democratic primary votes in her 2018 race for US Senate.
“Raising the minimum wage would amount to a significant reduction in the deficit, according to studies done by the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics and the Economic Policy Institute,” said McCormick. “Congress should end the crisis of starvation wages in America by raise the pay of America’s poorest workers to a living wage of at least $15 an hour.”
NJ Today
March 8, 2021
Durbin and Grassley cited a May 4, 2020 analysis by the Economic Policy Institute, saying “a majority of H-1B employers use the visa program to pay migrant workers below-market wages, and half of the top 30 H-1B employers use an outsourcing business model.”
“This is simply unacceptable and does not reflect how Congress intended the H-1B program to work.”
The American Bazaar
March 8, 2021
Caroline Hyde, Romaine Bostick & Joe Weisenthal bring the news and analysis you may have missed after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today’s show tackles dip buyers fuel the stock rebound and the jobs report Guests Today: Elise Gould of the Economic Policy Institute, Michael Purves of Tallbacken Capital Advisors. (Source: Bloomberg)
Bloomberg TV
March 8, 2021
David Cooper, a senior economic analyst at the Economic Policy Institute, a worker-focused policy group, said the momentum for an increase will continue.
“I think we’re going to continue to keep hearing about this, even if it’s not at the federal level,” he said.
Bloomberg Law
March 8, 2021