“As soon as you start measuring differences in any outcomes for Black and white kids, you would find differences, you would find gaps,” said Emma García, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute.
These “opportunity gaps” can be found when comparing any nonwhite, non-Asian American student with their white or Asian American peers, García said. They can also be found when comparing different socioeconomic classes.
Many of these gaps are driven by poverty, she said. And before a Black child is even born, the odds are stacked against them.
Inside Higher Ed
October 20, 2020
Sylvia Allegretto and Lawrence Mishel, “Teacher pay penalty dips but persists in 2019” (Washington: Economic Policy Institute, 2020)
Center for American Progress
October 20, 2020
Many unionized workers have paid sick time through a collective-bargaining agreement—according to the Economic Policy Institute, nine in ten workers who are covered by a union contract have access to paid sick days, and 97 percent of those in the public sector who have a union contract do. But as union density in the U.S. has fallen to 10.3 percent, no matter how good a sick time arrangement might be in a contract, few workers have access to them, underscoring the need for federal legislation to set a baseline.
The American Prospect
October 20, 2020
Darrick Hamilton, Ph.D., Henry Cohen Professor of Economics and Urban Policy; Founding Director, Institute for the Study of Race, Stratification and Political Economy, The New School and Valerie Wilson, Ph.D., Director, Program on Race, Ethnicity and the Economy, Economic Policy Institute speak with Donna Wilson, Bloomberg Radio Reporter and Anchor at the Bloomberg Equality virtual briefing Covid-19 Exposed: The Quest for Equity about ways to boost income and net worth for Black and brown households
Bloomberg TV
October 20, 2020
Heidi Shierholz, “With millions of workers receiving unemployment benefits and no end in sight for the COIVD-19 pandemic, Congress must act,” Economic Policy Institute, October 1, 2020
Center for American Progress
October 20, 2020
Pursuing trade and industrial policies that boost U.S. exports and eliminate the trade deficit while investing $2 trillion over four years in the nation’s infrastructure, clean energy, and energy efficiency improvements could support 6.9 to 12.9 million “good jobs” annually by 2024, according to an analysis published Tuesday.
The new report from a trio of experts at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a U.S.-based think tank, comes as the country continues to endure the public health and economic consequences of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, which has claimed more than 220,000 lives and millions of jobs in the United States alone this year.
Common Dreams
October 20, 2020
A recent report from the Economic Policy Institute found that the stimulus checks and enhanced unemployment benefits together helped keep 13.2 million Americans out of poverty through June. And the number of first-time unemployment claims have hovered above 800,000 a week since March, indicating continued job loss as a result of the pandemic.
CNET
October 20, 2020
A 2019 study by the nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute concluded that the manufacturing sector creates more indirect and supporting jobs than most other sectors.
On average, adding 100 manufacturing jobs to a community generates enough new employee discretionary spending and firm expansion expenditures to create 289 additional jobs in other sectors, such as retail stores, restaurants, construction companies, service firms, logistics support and other “Main Street” businesses that rely upon the wealth and activity that manufacturing generates.
Pocono Record
October 20, 2020
A report from the Economic Policy Institute shows that while jobs filled by women represented 50 percent of payroll employment in February 2020, positions held by women represented nearly 59 percent of job losses in March. In the hospitality industry, women make up 52 percent of the workforce but accounted for 54 percent of job losses.
Nevada Independent
October 20, 2020