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• $2.2 trillion HEROES Act would provide second round of stimulus checks

  Although the nation’s unemployment rate has declined to 8.4% in August from a high of 14.7% in April, more than 21 million workers remain jobless or out of the workforce because of the pandemic, according to an estimate from the Economic Policy Institute.

  CBS Moneywatch September 30, 2020
• A Model for the Labor Movement: The Working People Weekly List

  50 Reasons the Trump Administration Is Bad for Workers: “As a candidate, Donald Trump promised to protect workers and fight for us. President Trump hasn’t lived up to that noble rhetoric. The Economic Policy Institute reports on 50 ways that the Trump administration has been bad for workers.”

  AFL-CIO September 30, 2020
• There’s a Glaring Lack of Hispanic and Latinx CEOs in Fashion

  Behind paywall

  Women's Wear Daily September 30, 2020
• Fact-checking the debate

  EPI’s health insurance data is cited

  WUSA 9 September 30, 2020
• The Supreme Court’s Obamacare case was high stakes before Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination. Here’s why it’s even more important now

  A recent report from the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit, non-partisan think tank, estimated that around 6.2 million workers lost access to health insurance they got through their employers as a result of being let go since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. That figure takes into account workers who were originally laid off but have since found new employment.

  MarketWatch September 29, 2020
• In first presidential debate, what will we hear about the economy?

  “There seems to be some agreement that some enhanced benefit should be put back into place, but how much, I think, could be a point of disagreement,” said Josh Bivens, research director with the Economic Policy Institute.

  Marketplace September 29, 2020
• Trump’s Corporate-Friendly Trade, Tax, and Labor Policies Betrayed Manufacturing Workers in Midwest: Study

  In fact, more than 300,000 jobs in the U.S. have been lost to offshoring during Trump’s presidency, according to the Department of Labor. Earlier this year, the Economic Policy Institute estimated that the total loss of jobs due to the worsening trade deficit with China was much higher—700,000 lost to China alone in 2017 and 2018.

  Common Dreams September 29, 2020
• Will teacher concerns over COVID cause more of them to flee classroom?

  A new report by the Economic Policy Institute found public school teachers in Georgia earn about 25% less in weekly wages than nonteacher college graduates with similar characteristics, higher than the national teacher penalty gap of 20%.

  The Atlanta Journal Constitution September 29, 2020
• Arizona poverty rate continued fall in 2019, still topped national rate

  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.

  Cronkite News September 29, 2020
• Biden: Skilled at Debate, Awful at Economic Results

  Pre-Donald Trump, disastrous trade deals inflicted stagnation upon American workers, for decades. Joe Biden was a principal architect of such structures, from NAFTA to China’s inclusion in the World Trade Organization on terms highly advantageous to Beijing. Because of  Biden’s constant appeasing of the Chinese Communist Party, America acquiesced to an abusive economic relationship that cost our country more than 60,000 factories and over 3.2 million manufacturing jobs, per the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.

  Real Clear Politics September 29, 2020