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
The result “says a lot about how much voters in both parties are looking for government and policymakers to do something about the state of wages in America right now,” David Cooper, senior economic analyst at the Economic Policy Institute, said recently. “People want to see their paychecks grow, and this is a very easy, straightforward way to do it for a lot of people.”
Acorns
November 13, 2020
“The Trump administration did not feel bound by whether actions were legal in many cases, and the Biden administration, appropriately, will be more careful,” said the Economic Policy Institute’s Heidi Shierholz, who was chief economist at the Labor Department during the Obama administration and is now considered a contender for Biden’s Council of Economic Advisors.
The Hill
November 13, 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.
Restaurant Dive
November 13, 2020
Over the last 30 years, more and more employers have been shifting from pensions plans to defined-contribution plans, as a cost-saving measure. According to a recent study by the Economic Policy Institute, the switch has hurt the retirement savings of Black and Latinx workers in particular.4 Pension plans are somewhat equally held across racial groups with 24% of White, 20% of Black and 9% of Latinx workers having defined-benefit plans. However, access to 401(k) plans is much less equitably distributed, with 49% of White workers having defined-contribution plans compared to 32% of Black and 20% of Latinx workers.13
Investopedia
November 13, 2020
Treasury secretary would give Yellen a large platform for pushing progress, the opportunity to name a diverse team of economic advisors, and a chance to weigh in on wider changes to the government’s hiring culture. Opoku-Agyeman says she would be excited to see Black economists such as Lisa D. Cook, an economics professor at Michigan State; William E. Spriggs, chief economist to the AFL-CIO; or Valerie Wilson, director of the Economic Policy Institute’s program on race, ethnicity, and the economy included in discussions on how to alleviate economic and racial pain in the US.
Quartz
November 13, 2020
That idea is emblematic of Biden’s approach. He has also championed a $775 billion program underwriting the cost of childcare and eldercare for American families and backs a $2 trillion infrastructure plan that would overhaul U.S. roads, bridges, trains and broadband systems while creating millions of jobs. The Biden Administration is also expected to push Congress to extend the $600 in expanded unemployment that expired at the end of July and to back an influx of federal cash to state and local governments, which have been forced by the economic collapse to slash programs benefiting American families, experts say. Colorado, for example, has increased Medicaid co-pays; California reduced firefighter pay by 7.5%; and Georgia slashed K-12 public school budgets by nearly $1 billion. Data suggests that Congress’s failure in 2008 to sufficiently bolster state governments delayed the economic recovery by four years, says Heidi Shierholz, a senior economist at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute and a former Labor Department economist.
Time
November 13, 2020