The Economic Policy Institute reported that Hispanic women are subject to a double pay gap — the first one is ethnic pay, which means they are getting less money just because they are Latinas. The other gap is the gender pay gap; they earn less because they are females.
Hola!
October 30, 2020
The pandemic hit retail, restaurants and hotels hard, which has a disproportionate impact on women and Black and Latino populations research has shown, further exacerbating the wage gap for Latinas, according to NWLC. But the wage gap is also affecting Latina workers in professions critical to COVID-19 recovery such as doctors and nurses, according to an Oct. 28 report by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). Latinas in these occupations, on average, earn 6% to 32% less than White men. The wage gap is highest among doctors and surgeons. Latina physicians are paid 68% of the average hourly wage of non-Hispanic White male doctors (a difference of $20.46 per hour), according to the report.
HR Dive
October 30, 2020
AUSTIN (KXAN) — For every dollar a white, non-Hispanic male makes, Latinas are paid 55 cents. Latinas have to work almost 11 additional months into the next year to be paid as much as their white male counterparts for doing the same exact job, according to the economic policy institute.
KXAN
October 30, 2020
When hundreds of thousands of people are falling behind on bills or making those household budget compromises, the ripple effect is far-reaching said Heidi Shierholz, an economist with the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank.
“It’s really bad for the economy, but it does seem like there’s very little chance anything will happen before the election,” Shierholz said.
KJZZ
October 30, 2020
Trump also appears unconcerned with the record number of Americans who lost their jobs in the pandemic shutdown, except for the fact that their losses ruined a jobs streak that occurred on his watch. This is of a piece with his administration. The president has repeatedly claimed to have created gains in manufacturing positions, even though experts say he did no such thing. In a report released this summer, the Economic Policy Institute flatly declared, “offshoring and the loss of manufacturing plants have continued under Trump.” The stock market has been falling, and the Dow Jones industrial average fell by more than 1,500 points in the past week. Trump, who forever boasts when markets are on the rise, is silent.
Washington Post
October 30, 2020
The left-leaning Economic Policy Institute said workplace democracy and ability of working people to unionize was key to protect their rights.
Thompson Reuters
October 30, 2020
A report by the Economic Policy Institute published in August contradicted his claims, however. It found that far from reenergizing the so-called Rust Belt — former industrial areas of the northeastern US that had seen a sharp economic decline since the 1990s — more manufacturing jobs left the US than were created during Trump’s first two years in office.
Indian Express
October 30, 2020
Valerie Wilson, an economist at the labor-backed Economic Policy Institute, said that policy response to COVID-19 must acknowledge its effects on many racial groups. She added that no policy is ever race-neutral.
Wilson said that there is going to be a differential impact because society is structured. She added that the Black unemployment rate had been twice the size of the white rate.
Latin Post
October 30, 2020
Typically, there are enough applications submitted at the two highest wage levels to meet the cap, said Ron Hira, a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) in Washington, D.C., and an associate professor of political science at Howard University. Hira co-authored a May 2020 report at EPI that found 60 percent of H-1B positions certified in fiscal year 2019 were assigned the two lowest prevailing wage levels, which were “significantly lower” than the local median salaries surveyed for occupations.
Society for Human Resource Management
October 30, 2020
Economists say other relief policies have proved more effective at boosting the economy. For instance, an extra $600 in weekly unemployment pay helped bolster households that had suffered job or income losses — until it expired in July. In May alone, the program boosted personal income by $842 billion, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
CBS News
October 30, 2020