“Blocking more stimulus is not just cruel, it’s terrible economics. For example, the spending made possible by the extra $600 in UI was supporting millions of jobs. Letting the $600 expire means cutting those jobs,” wrote Heidi Shierholz, senior economist and director of policy at the liberal Economic Policy Institute in a recent blog post.
MarketWatch
October 30, 2020
According to the Economic Policy Institute, Black children are more than twice as likely as White children to attend high-poverty schools and researchers estimate that primarily white school districts receive $23 billion more in annual funding than non-white school districts.
CNBC
October 30, 2020
According to LeanIn.org, Latina women make 55 cents for every dollar made by a white man, which accounts for more than 1 million dollars lost over their lifetime. Latina women are overrepresented in some of the lowest paid jobs, according to the National Women’s Law Center. And, as the Economic Policy Institute reports, the population has also faced disproportionate economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mashable
October 30, 2020
“Although the current strain of the coronavirus is one that humans have never experienced before, the disparate racial impact of the virus is deeply rooted in historic and ongoing social and economic injustices,” the Economic Policy Institute reported. “Persistent racial disparities in health status, access to health care, wealth, employment, wages, housing, income, and poverty all contribute to greater susceptibility to the virus — both economically and physically.”
My Horry News
October 30, 2020
Since then, Bernstein has spent much of his career evangelizing that message from within progressive think tanks—first at the Economic Policy Institute during the “big government is over” ’90s, and now at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, where he is a senior fellow. In 2016, Politico named him one of the 50 “thinkers” transforming American politics. He came in at No. 21. Madeleine Albright, Lena Dunham, and Gloria Steinem tied for No. 22.
The Atlantic
October 30, 2020
Experts attribute the divide to a “double wage gap” whereby Latinas are subjected to both gender and ethnic bias, crippling upward mobility and limiting earnings to an average of 55 cents on the dollar compared to white men. According to the Economic Policy Institute, while the types of occupation and lack of education remain critical factors, even when accounting for those factors, in addition to experience and location, Latinas are still vastly underpaid compared to their white male colleagues across professions.
In the Know
October 30, 2020
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