Heidi Shierholz, the Economic Policy Institute’s senior economist and director of policy, told Business Insider’s Madison Hoff that if congress extends unemployment insurance, more than 5 million jobs could be added.
Markets Insider
October 30, 2020
“Most states provide 26 weeks (six months) of regular [unemployment] benefits, and this crisis has gone on much longer than that,” Heidi Shierholz, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, wrote in a blog post Thursday. “That means many workers are exhausting their regular state UI benefits.”
Common Dreams
October 30, 2020
In New Jersey, where she lives, the average cost for child care for a 4-year-old costs $10,855 annually, according to the Economic Policy Institute.13 And according to data from September, women are leaving the workforce at four times the rate of men.14 Families, and women, in particular, are bearing the brunt of taking care of children and running a household during the pandemic when many children haven’t returned to in-person teaching.
Very Well Health
October 30, 2020
“Blocking more stimulus is not just cruel, it’s terrible economics. For example, the spending made possible by the extra $600 in UI was supporting millions of jobs. Letting the $600 expire means cutting those jobs,” wrote Heidi Shierholz, senior economist and director of policy at the liberal Economic Policy Institute in a recent blog post.
MarketWatch
October 30, 2020
According to the Economic Policy Institute, Black children are more than twice as likely as White children to attend high-poverty schools and researchers estimate that primarily white school districts receive $23 billion more in annual funding than non-white school districts.
CNBC
October 30, 2020
“Although the current strain of the coronavirus is one that humans have never experienced before, the disparate racial impact of the virus is deeply rooted in historic and ongoing social and economic injustices,” the Economic Policy Institute reported. “Persistent racial disparities in health status, access to health care, wealth, employment, wages, housing, income, and poverty all contribute to greater susceptibility to the virus — both economically and physically.”
My Horry News
October 30, 2020
According to LeanIn.org, Latina women make 55 cents for every dollar made by a white man, which accounts for more than 1 million dollars lost over their lifetime. Latina women are overrepresented in some of the lowest paid jobs, according to the National Women’s Law Center. And, as the Economic Policy Institute reports, the population has also faced disproportionate economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mashable
October 30, 2020
Since then, Bernstein has spent much of his career evangelizing that message from within progressive think tanks—first at the Economic Policy Institute during the “big government is over” ’90s, and now at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, where he is a senior fellow. In 2016, Politico named him one of the 50 “thinkers” transforming American politics. He came in at No. 21. Madeleine Albright, Lena Dunham, and Gloria Steinem tied for No. 22.
The Atlantic
October 30, 2020
Experts attribute the divide to a “double wage gap” whereby Latinas are subjected to both gender and ethnic bias, crippling upward mobility and limiting earnings to an average of 55 cents on the dollar compared to white men. According to the Economic Policy Institute, while the types of occupation and lack of education remain critical factors, even when accounting for those factors, in addition to experience and location, Latinas are still vastly underpaid compared to their white male colleagues across professions.
In the Know
October 30, 2020