Panel 2 – Tackling Racial Inequity and Injustice in the Labor Market:
Amanda Cage, President and Chief Executive Officer, National Fund for Workforce Solutions @WorkforceAmanda
Sarah Keh, Vice President, Inclusive Solutions, Prudential Financial @sarah_keh
Heidi Shierholz, Senior Economist and Director of Policy, Economic Policy Institute @hshierholz
Tanya Wallace-Gobern, Executive Director, National Black Worker Center Project @NBWCP
Lisa Hamilton, President and Chief Executive Officer, Annie E. Casey Foundation (moderator) @lhamilton_aecf
WorkRise Network
October 16, 2020
Preventing or mitigating state and local government layoffs would be right in line with the Federal Reserve’s newfound interest in addressing structural racism in the economy. Such layoffs have in the past and would again disproportionately harm Black workers, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Next City
October 16, 2020
Daniel Costa, director of immigration law and policy research at the Washington-based Economic Policy Institute, said America benefits from skilled foreign workers but reforms are needed.
“You can legally bring in a worker for less than what the going rate is for a worker in that area, Costa said. “Companies are going to do what’s best for their bottom line and their profits.”
Voice of America
October 16, 2020
The economic impact of repealing the health care law on the commonwealth’s economy, on top of COVID-19-related economic losses, would be significant, according to the Economic Policy Institute, which describes itself as an independent nonprofit research organization.
The institute estimated in 2017 that 956,000 Pennsylvanians would lose health coverage, boosting the uninsured ranks 134%, and nearly 32,000 jobs would be lost in the state.
Ellwood City Ledger
October 16, 2020
Los economistas del Economic Policy Institute creen que será imposible que haya un estímulo antes de febrero, dado el calendario del Senado y las fechas electorales.
El Diaro
October 16, 2020
“We’re facing a crisis on two fronts,” said Valerie Wilson, who directs the Program on Race, Ethnicity and the Economy for the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington think tank. “There is both a recession, which is an economic crisis, and a public health crisis. We find that those underlying structures and inequalities simply replicate themselves through our current situation.”
The Undefeated
October 16, 2020
The national minimum wage was created in 1938 as part of the Fair Labor Standards Act, which set the rate at 25 cents an hour. It has risen in fits and starts in the decades since, but it has not kept pace with the country’s cost of living. According to a 2019 analysis done by the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C., think tank, after adjusting for inflation, the minimum wage reached its peak value in 1968. Today, the minimum wage is worth 31 percent less than it was in 1968 and 17 percent less than it was even as recently as 2009, the last time the national rate was increased, to $7.25 an hour.
Sarasota
October 16, 2020
The shortage “is large, growing, and worse than we thought,” warns the latest report from the Economic Policy Institute’s “Perfect Storm in the Teacher Labor Market” series.
District Administration
October 16, 2020
In Michigan, unemployment is high, wages are low and the gap between the rich and poor is only widening. The top 1% take home 17.8% of all the income in the state, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Yahoo Finance
October 16, 2020