I was also one of the 12.7 million Americans who the Economic Policy Institute estimates lost their health insurance received through their workplace or family member this spring. I went from my union’s employer-sponsored plan, with a $600-a-year family premium, to a plan that costs $1,000 a month for my child and me. If not for the Affordable Care Act subsidy, the premium would cost $600 more. The subsidy may or not continue, depending on which way the wind blows.
The New York Times
November 16, 2020
Lily Garcia, former head of the National Education Association whose mother is from Panama. She serves on the president’s advisory commission on educational excellence for Hispanics and is a board member of the Economic Policy Institute. If appointed, she would be the first Latina named Secretary of Education.
USA Today
November 16, 2020
“Things have improved more quickly than I expected, but we still have an enormous gap,” said Heidi Shierholz, a Labor Department economist in the Obama administration who is the policy director for the liberal Economic Policy Institute in Washington. She said the economy still needed trillions of dollars of support over the next two years.
The New York Times
November 16, 2020
The ever more radical social views that dominate the “woke” left and increasingly corporate America also may not play well with many immigrants who, according to one recent survey, are twice as conservative in their social views as the general public. Hispanics may not be the reliable social conservatives imagined by some Republicans, but they certainly seem unlikely to widely share the world-view of woke faculty lounges. Adding Latinos, African Americans and, in some states, Asians to the GOP’s working and middle-class base will prove critical to building a populist majority. Today barely 58% of all working-class Americans are white; according to a 2016 Economic Policy Institute study, people of color will constitute the majority of the working class by 2032.
The Daily Caller
November 16, 2020
The education level of people entering the workforce has a significant impact on the rate at which the economy grows in the long run, Hanushek told NBC News. A more educated person is more likely to have a job, work longer hours and be paid more. Higher education levels also correspond to improved health and lower rates of mortality and crime, according to a 2013 report from the Economic Policy Institute. All of these dynamics contribute to a faster growing economy, Hanushek said.
NBC News
November 16, 2020
What happened in California? Despite the state’s liberal reputation, voters there last week approved Proposition 22, a ballot initiative exempting many gig companies from state workplace laws and stripping their workers of basic, essential protections.
The New York Times
November 13, 2020
5. Heidi Shierholz– Economic Policy Institute (EPI)
Shierholz’s policy team at EPI focuses on “wage and employment policies coming out of Congress and the Administration and advances a worker-first policy agenda.”
Chief Executive
November 13, 2020
Cuando Biden se mude a la Casa Blanca en enero, le quedará la parte más difícil de la recuperación. “Biden enfrentará una crisis en aumento, no menguante”, indicó Elise Gould, economista de Economic Policy Institute, a NBC News.
Telemundo
November 13, 2020
“According to the Economic Policy Institute, 39 percent of workers in the United States are in essential categories.
Western Journal
November 13, 2020
Como recuerda Heidi Shierholz del Economic Policy Institute, ya suman 34 las semanas seguidas en las que el total de las peticiones de ayuda al desempleo superan a la peor semana de la Gran Recesión de 2008. Si se eliminan las PUA, las demandas están tres veces por encima de lo que estaban hace un año.
El Diario
November 13, 2020