Elise Gould, economista del Economic Policy Institute, apunta a otro factor determinante en el hecho de que en un momento de dificultades como al que ha forzado la pandemia de covid-19 se pierdan más empleos femeninos: en igualdad de condiciones, con ambos cónyuges trabajando en un puesto similar, la mujer gana menos, lo que pone de relevancia la importancia de recortar la brecha salarial.
“Además del contexto cultural, si uno de los dos miembros del hogar deben abandonar su trabajo para atender la casa, será la mujer la que suponga un menor golpe financiero”, señala Gould, quien coincide en señalar la falta de una red de bienestar social en Estados Unidos como el principal escollo para la incorporación plena de la mujer en el mercado laboral.
EFE
March 9, 2021
The Economic Policy Institute reports that women and people of color are most impacted by low wages in the U.S. The nonprofit states that 59% of low-wage earners are women, while nearly one-third of African Americans and one-quarter of Latinos would get a raise if the federal minimum wage were increased to $15. More than half of minimum-wage earners work full-time, the nonprofit reports.
WHYY
March 9, 2021
The UFCW cited figures presented by the Economic Policy Institute which indicate that increasing the minimum wage to $15 by 2025 would raise the pay of 82-percent of all Delaware workers who are currently in poverty.
WGMD
March 9, 2021
According to the Economic Policy Institute, many of the workers who would benefit from raising the minimum wage are college-educated women with children and workers of color, helping to eliminate the racial pay gap.
Teen Vogue
March 9, 2021
An Economic Policy Institute report found that employers try to block the formation of unions 40% of the time. Employers also regularly stall initial bargaining agreements during union formation.
The American Independent
March 9, 2021
The other countries that offer such programs typically have lower child poverty. Denmark, which spends 20.9% of its GDP on social programs, has a child poverty rate of 2.9%, per the The Economic Policy Institute.
Business Insider
March 9, 2021
Even before the pandemic, more than 4 in 10 children lived in households that struggle to meet basic expenses, and the United States has one of the highest child poverty rates of all developed countries, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Poverty can have a lifelong impact on kids, negatively affecting their learning and development, their physical brain composition, and their earnings in adulthood.
CNN
March 9, 2021
Progressives have remained undeterred, gambling that the strong public support for Biden’s relief plan, augurs well for a wage hike. Data show that Pennsylvania currently lags all of its neighboring states in its minimum wage. Even West Virginia, among the poorest states in the nation, has an $8.75 hourly minimum, according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute.
Pennsylvania Capital-Star
March 9, 2021
According to the Economic Policy Institute, Latinas accounted for 20.2 percent of the more than 20 million people listed as unemployed in April 2020. This is largely because Hispanic women tend to work in the industries hardest hit by COVID-19 lockdowns: hospitality and leisure (hotels, restaurants, entertainment and tourism), the service sector (cleaning services, food, health care and security), commerce and education, among others. Despite a gradual, mild recovery over the ensuing months, Latinas still made up 9.2 percent of the unemployed in January.
AARP
March 9, 2021
One common feature is that many people who lost jobs earned low wages. According to an analysis from the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning research group, workers in the lowest quartile of earners lost almost eight million jobs from 2019 to 2020, while the highest wage earners gained jobs.
New York Times
March 9, 2021