Valerie Wilson, del Economic Policy Institute agregó “Todo el mundo habla de la vacuna y de cómo combatir a la pandemia, pero nadie se preocupa de los pagos en efectivo de emergencia”.
NNC.MX
December 3, 2020
And those who need Covid economic relief the most — gig and other low-income workers who’ve lost jobs or hours to the pandemic — don’t have retirement accounts to withdraw from. Overall, the Economic Policy Institute reported last year, “nearly half of working-age families have nothing saved in retirement accounts.”
Inequality.org
December 3, 2020
Bernstein has also worked as a social worker and a former economist at the think tank Economic Policy Institute.
News Nation Now
December 3, 2020
A recent study by the Economic Policy Institute illustrated how the coronavirus has revealed the ways in which domestic work has been undervalued and it’s workforce under-protected. While employers are taking steps to practice social distancing, a large number of domestic workers have been left without work and the looming prospect they may lose their jobs.
Forbes
December 3, 2020
Connecticut Insider
December 2, 2020
Daniel Costa, an Economic Policy Institute immigration policy expert, told the Huffington Post the index the Trump administration prefers could result in larger increases for some higher-skilled farmworkers, but overall guest workers would have their wages decreased.
“This is absolutely a wage cut for migrants who are H-2A farmworkers,” Costa said. “H-2A farmworkers will not benefit from any natural wage growth that occurs [until 2023] ― during what farm owners are saying is a severe labor shortage, which is exactly when you would expect wages to grow in a free market.”
Top Class Actions
December 2, 2020
Bernstein was Biden’s chief economist and economic advisor, executive director of the White House Task Force on the Middle Class, and a member of President Obama’s economic team from 2009 to 2011, while Biden was vice president. Prior to joining the Obama administration, Bernstein was a senior economist and the director of the Living Standards Program at the Economic Policy Institute, and between 1995 and 1996, he held the post of deputy chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor.
Connecticut Patch
December 2, 2020
East Bay Times
December 2, 2020
Bernstein has also worked as a social worker and a former economist at the think tank Economic Policy Institute.
KXAN
December 2, 2020
Valerie Wilson, del Economic Policy Institute, dijo en un comunicado que el impacto financiero desproporcionado de la pandemia en las comunidades de color refleja, y empeora, las disparidades raciales existentes en el país.
Antes de la crisis, estos grupos ya estaban atrasados en las cifras de empleo y salarios, y la pandemia fue un golpe de gracia. “Las disparidades van a empeorar la brecha de riqueza en el país”, pronosticó.
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December 2, 2020