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• How Buy America Can Help Biden Truly Build Back Better

  Infrastructure investment is not only a smart move politically. Recent research by the Economic Policy Institute found up to 12.9 million new jobs could be created by investing in infrastructure and clean energy and rebalancing trade. Enhancing Buy America policies will only enhance those estimates.

  Alliance for American Manufacturing December 9, 2020
• The U.S. still has 10 million fewer jobs now than before the pandemic

  A recent report from the Economic Policy Institute found that reinstating the expired $600 weekly jobless benefit could save or create 3.3 million jobs and boost personal income by more than $290 billion over the next year.

  CNBC December 9, 2020
• Despite What They Say, You’re Not Guaranteed a Job by Learning to Code

  According to a study conducted by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), Microsoft issued a report in 2012 that distorted the future reality of computing-related occupations. Microsoft’s report stated that there would be a shortage of 1.2 million developers needing to fill computing related-positions that required at least a bachelor’s degree between 2010 and 2020. Microsoft continued on to say that in the United States, 40,000 Americans graduate with bachelor’s degrees in computer science each year, leaving many of the projected future jobs unfilled.

  Medium December 9, 2020
• VERIFY: If Congress doesn’t act by the end of the year, what CARES Act benefits will end and when?

  What it is: According to a recent report by the Economic Policy Institute, most states provide 26 weeks of regular unemployment benefits. The PEUC allows these workers to add an additional 13 weeks of unemployment benefits, due to the pandemic.

  WUSA 9 December 9, 2020
• ‘This Is Atrocious’: Trump White House Proposes Covid Relief Plan With $0 Weekly Unemployment Boost

  “The expiration of vital pandemic unemployment insurance (UI) benefits on December 26 will leave 12 million workers without a safety net, and over four million others will have already exhausted their benefits by this cutoff,” Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, wrote in a blog post last week. “This spells trouble not only for workers and their families who are desperately trying to keep a roof over their heads and put food on the table—especially with the eviction moratorium also set to expire on December 31—but also for the recovery itself.”

  Common Dreams December 9, 2020
• Yes, the rich got richer: Top 1% saw their wages soar by 160% since 1979, six times the increase of the bottom 90% of workers

  During the last economic expansion, from 2009 to 2019, average yearly wages for the bottom 90% of workers rose 8.7% after adjusting for inflation, according to an analysis of Social Security Administration data by the liberal Economic Policy Institute (EPI). Meanwhile, pay for most of the top 10% rose 13.2% – while earnings for the top 1% jumped 20.4%.

  “It’s a clear story of disempowerment of workers,” said Lawrence Mishel, co-author of the study and a distinguished fellow at EPI.

  USA Today December 9, 2020
• COVID-19 has pushed more women into ‘survival mode’

  For the first time since 1948, female unemployment rates have reached double digits, reported WBUR-FM, an affiliate of NPR. In April, 18 percent of Wisconsin women were unemployed, double the rate of men, according to Wisconsin Public Radio. Black and Latinx women are also in an economically more precarious and worse position than are white and Asian women, based on research from the Economic Policy Institute.

  Daily Cardinal December 9, 2020
• EPI Clips: 12/9/20
  December 9, 2020
• Where the fight for a $15 minimum wage goes from here

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  Quartz December 9, 2020
• America’s K-12 teachers are increasingly weary as pandemic crushes profession

  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