A decir verdad, los trabajadores negros tienen más probabilidades que otros trabajadores de desempeñar trabajos de primera línea donde corren un mayor riesgo de exponerse al coronavirus, según un análisis del Economic Policy Institute. Esto afecta a los adultos mayores porque “los afroamericanos tienen más probabilidades de vivir en hogares de familias extensas”, explica Taylor. “Es más probable que el trabajador esencial propague la enfermedad dentro de un determinado hogar, en particular a la persona mayor más vulnerable”, añade.
AARP
November 16, 2020
Without such assistance, the Economic Policy Institute estimates that 5.3 million state and local jobs will be lost by the end of 2021, exceeding job losses of the Great Recession and deepening – or creating – another economic downturn.
LexisNexis
November 16, 2020
Outdated unemployment insurance systems in some states collapsed from the influx of applicants who lost their job during the pandemic. As a result, only 71% of applicants received benefits by April 11, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
The Southern Illinoisan
November 16, 2020
Years later, policymakers would make similar mistakes by failing to properly address the material needs of Black households during the Great Recession. Research forecasts that by 2031, Black household wealth will be nearly 40% lower than it would have been had the Great Recession never occurred. In contrast, White household wealth is projected to be 31% lower than it would have been absent the Recession. For the average Black family, this means that median wealth will be roughly $100,000 lower than it would have been without the recession. Further still, data from the Economic Policy Institute shows that median household incomes for African American households are down nearly 1.9% compared to pre-recession levels. Taken together, these figures show the failure of public institutions to address the hardship created by the racially biased predatory lending practices that contributed to the Great Recession.
California Health Report
November 16, 2020
In California, 86% of housekeepers are Hispanic, according to a 2019 Economic Policy Institute report. About 61.5% of them are foreign-born noncitizens. The median hourly wage of a house cleaner is $10.78 in California.
Sacramento Bee
November 16, 2020
Elise Gould, senior economist with the Economic Policy Institute, tells CNBC Make It this federal approach is a step in the right direction and points out it’s been the intention of various federal stimulus, including the Paycheck Protection Program and enhanced unemployment insurance, enacted in the spring.
“Health experts have been talking about this all along, to stay home and make it financially viable for people to do so,” Gould says.
NBC News
November 16, 2020
That disparity hits low-income, Black, and Latinx households in the US especially hard. A March analysis from the Economic Policy Institute, a DC-based think tank, found that roughly 16% of Latinx workers and 20% of black workers can work from home, compared to 29% of white workers and 31% of non-Hispanic workers. And only about 10% of workers who fall in the lowest 25th percentile of income have that luxury.
Quartz
November 16, 2020
As Bob points out, a further strong candidate for the job is Bill Spriggs, an African American economist who’s the AFL-CIO’s chief economist and a professor at Howard University. (Bill is also a member of the Prospect board.) Other potential candidates who would better personify labor’s new face include Julie Su, the stellar commissioner of labor in California, and Thea Lee, the AFL-CIO’s former trade economist and deputy chief of staff, and currently the president of the Economic Policy Institute (from which, full disclosure, the Prospect subleases its offices).
The American Prospect
November 16, 2020
In a press release, Economic Policy Institute President Thea M. Lee said that the institute is looking forward to working with the incoming administration on addressing the needs of working people and reversing systemic racism. “EPI has long called for policies that would shift bargaining power back toward workers, curb accelerating income inequality, shore up the nation’s infrastructure and educational systems, protect and expand social insurance programs, and help close gender and racial wage gaps,” said Lee.
Workday Minnesota
November 16, 2020