Of course, not everyone left vulnerable by ending of the ACA would go without insurance. Some would use the money they’re currently spending on other necessities to buy health care. The Economic Policy Institute says that would result in major job losses as spending is directed away from local businesses and toward health insurance. A study from the group put the number of job losses in Kentucky after a potential ACA repeal at 55,949.
Spectrum News
November 12, 2020
United States unemployment for workers aged 16 to 24 tripled from 2019 to 2020, hitting 24.4 percent this spring, according to an October report by the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive-leaning think-tank based in Washington, DC.
Al Jazeera
November 12, 2020
Elise Gould, a senior economist at Economic Policy Institute in Washington. “That means, no matter what they did, there were no jobs for 5.4 million unemployed workers. And this misses the fact that many more weren’t counted among the unemployed.”
Reuters
November 12, 2020
“It seems like it’s everything,” said Heidi Shierholz, a former Labor Department economist under President Barack Obama who is the policy director at the liberal Economic Policy Institute in Washington. “If it’s 50-50 in the Senate after the Georgia races, then the Democrats will be able to push something substantial through that will be a really key thing for boosting the economy. If not, it just doesn’t seem possible.”
The New York Times
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