“An administration without Congress can’t do much,” said Heidi Shierholz, senior economist and director of policy at the Economic Policy Institute. She was the Labor Department’s economist in the Obama administration. “I have dim hopes for a basic recovery package,” she said. “I don’t have any hope for progressive priorities, like a really big investment in the care economy.”
Wall Street Journal
November 13, 2020
But even with uncertainty in the Senate, “there is no path to having a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate” to increase the federal minimum wage, said Heidi Shierholz, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think-tank based in Washington, D.C.
MarketWatch
November 12, 2020
Rothstein, distinguished fellow at the Economic Policy Institute and senior fellow emeritus at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, explained two ways in which Black Americans were directly impacted: Federal lending authorities required that suburban housing tracts incorporate CC&Rs prohibiting anyone other than Caucasians to own property in a development, and, simultaneously, while white flight to the suburbs was occurring, urban neighborhoods became even less desirable as zoning laws reserved some of their neighborhoods for industrial plants and waste disposal – “blights” that were kept out of white neighborhoods.
Los Altos Town Crier
November 12, 2020
Wells said workers in Arizona do benefit from one of the highest minimum wages in the country. According to the Economic Policy Institute, Arizona’s $12-an-hour minimum wage trails only Massachusetts’ $12.75 hourly wage, California’s $13.00, Washington state’s $13.50 and the District of Columbia’s $15.00. Oregon, Colorado and Maine also set a $12 hourly minimum.
AZ Daily Sun
November 12, 2020
And these are only data for people who are working. Economist Valerie Wilson at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) notes that many more women than men are dropping out of the labor force altogether. The trend is driven by women’s care work responsibilities, with the lack of school reopening and America’s inadequate child care system making it harder for women to stay in the labor force. Tedeschi has shown that mothers are leaving the work force at three times the rate of fathers.
Forbes
November 12, 2020
“I think we’re likely to see a focus on relief and recovery efforts, in particular […] through a lens of what workers need to work safely in this moment,” Celine McNicholas, director of government affairs and legal counsel at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning policy think tank, told HR Dive. “No one having to return to work in an unsafe situation; looking at ways to ensure that workers are not denied employment insurance protections,” she added.
HR Dive
November 12, 2020
“There’s not much the president can do as far as getting more benefits to people,” said Heidi Shierholz, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington. She was the chief economist at the U.S. Labor Department during part of the Obama administration.
Fresno Bee
November 12, 2020
Fresh off his election win, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Congress should focus its energy on approving a new coronavirus stimulus bill “by the end of the year” and it would possibly “do more for state and local governments.” That would be a relief, because without any more money, 5.3 million workers could lose their jobs by the end of 2021 if municipalities don’t get a bailout, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Tribune Content Agency
November 12, 2020
The Trump administration has moved aggressively to alter regulations affecting the environment, workplace health and safety, education policy and programs like Medicaid. This newspaper has documented the completion or advancement of rollbacks of more than 100 environmental rules, some of which went even beyond the wish lists of the companies that will benefit. The Economic Policy Institute found 50 actions that would limit workers’ rights.
New York Times
November 12, 2020
However, Ossoff and Warnock both support the PRO Act, which stands for Protecting the Right to Organize. This legislation, which passed the Democrat-controlled House this year, overrides Right to Work laws that prevent unions from collecting dues from the workers they represent, according to the Economic Policy Institute. The legislation essentially cracks down on independent contracting and freelancing.
Daily Caller
November 12, 2020