“Another way to think about this, for every 16 workers who were officially counted as unemployed, there were only available jobs for 10 of them,” said Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington. “That means there were no jobs for 4.2 million unemployed workers. And this misses the fact that many more weren’t counted among the unemployed.”
Reuters
December 10, 2020
12 million workers have lost employer-sponsored health insurance during the pandemic as of August 26, 2020. [Economic Policy Institute]
Without a federal fiscal relief package, workers will face even greater loss of jobs and services than they have already suffered. The Economic Policy Institute predicts that without more federal aid 5.3 million public-sector jobs—including those of teachers, public safety employees and health care workers—will be lost by the end of 2021.
Institute for Policy Studies
December 10, 2020
These issues arise during an existing affordability crisis for graduate students at Stanford, and childcare is one of the largest expenses families face. According to the Economic Policy Institute, the average yearly cost for infant childcare in California is $16,945, which is more than the cost of yearly in-state tuition for a public four-year college.
The Stanford Daily
December 10, 2020
A 2018 study by Alexander J.S. Colvin for the Economic Policy Institute estimates that 60 million American workers have signed arbitration contracts with their employers — and that such contracts are more common for low-wage workers.
Los Angeles Times
December 10, 2020
Findings published last week by the Economic Policy Institute show that wages for the top 1% of Americans have skyrocketed 160% since 1979. Wages for the upper echelon of the rich — the top 0.1% — grew more than twice as fast, soaring more than 345%.
Fox Business
December 10, 2020
“The president has the authority to direct [the Occupational Safety and Health Administration] to put in place an emergency temporary standard to help protect workers during COVID,” said Heidi Shierholz, a former Obama administration labor economist who now works at the Economic Policy Institute.
NPR
December 10, 2020
“Another way to think about this, for every 16 workers who were officially counted as unemployed, there were only available jobs for 10 of them,” said Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington. “That means there were no jobs for 4.2 million unemployed workers. And this misses the fact that many more weren’t counted among the unemployed.”
Reuters
December 10, 2020
According to research from the Economic Policy Institute, in 2019, public school teachers earned nearly 20% less in weekly wages than other college-educated workers.
Yahoo Finance
December 9, 2020
An examination of federal data by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) shows that income rose for the top 1 percent of earners by 160 percent between 1979 and 2019, compared to only 26 percent for those in the bottom 90 percent of wage earners. Both groups, however, were dwarfed by those in the top 0.1 percent of incomes, who saw their wages skyrocket by 345.2 percent during the same time.
Teamsters
December 9, 2020