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• Study: Inequality Robs $2.5 Trillion From U.S. Workers Each Year

  It’s no secret that wage and productivity growth began decoupling in the 1970s. Charts like this one from the Economic Policy Institute have been ubiquitous in progressive economic policy debates since the Great Recession:
  New York Magazine September 15, 2020
• White Workers Are Getting Hired Back Twice As Fast As Black Workers

  “As jobs are coming back they’re disproportionately going to white people,” said Heidi Shierholz, director of policy at the progressive Economic Policy Institute.

  Huffington Post September 15, 2020
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  September 15, 2020
• With more people falling below the poverty line, a look at what benefits they might receive

  Valerie Wilson at the Economic Policy Institute said that with pandemic job losses, “the reduced income for a larger number of people will mean that more people are eligible for various programs.”

  Wilson says job and income losses have been greatest among low-income workers of color, especially women.

  Marketplace September 15, 2020
• Moving HOPE Forward into the 21st Century

  [14] Rothstein, R. (2018). The color of law: A forgotten history of how our government segregated America. Liveright Publishing Corporation. For a case study, see Rothstein, R. (2014, Oct 15). The making of Ferguson. Economic Policy Institute. https://www.epi.org/publication/making-ferguson

  Georgia Budget & Policy Institute September 15, 2020
• Unions can revive the American Dream

  It is our collective responsibility to show the people what a labor union is, where our strength comes from, who the union belongs to, what collective bargaining is and what we mean by union solidarity. As recently stated in the Economic Policy Institute report How Today’s Unions Help Working People: “Unions improve the lives of all workers. Unions raise workers¹ wages and strengthen their rights at work.”

  The CT Mirror September 15, 2020
• Centene added 1.1M members since March amid COVID-19 job losses

  The U.S. economy has recovered somewhat from a nadir in March and April, but the COVID-19 recession resulted in ripples of furloughs and job losses across myriad industries. Millions of Americans were quickly unemployed. Estimates on how many people lost job-based health insurance vary, but one of the newest studies, from the Economic Policy Institute, estimates about 12 million Americans have lost coverage since February.

  Healthcare Dive September 15, 2020
• Crisis response: Institute economists address the pandemic

  Investment bank UBS predicted an increase of 860,000 unemployment claims, Goldman Sachs said 2.25 million new claims, and Bank of America forecast 3 million. In a blog item for the Economic Policy Institute, Sojourner and Goldsmith-Pinkham projected 3.394 million.

  Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis September 15, 2020
• Black leaders in ASU Athletics act to empower student athletes beyond the field

  Economic inequality plagues Black families. A June 2020 report from the Economic Policy Institute determined the average hourly wage of a working Black male in America in 2019 was a little more than $20, or 71% of the average wage of a working white male, at $29. The salary of Black women was even lower: the average wage of a working Black female, about $18, was 83% of the average wage of a working white female, who made an average $22.

  Cronkite News September 15, 2020
• Hobby Lobby raises minimum wage to $17 an hour for full-time employees

  Three states — California, Massachusetts and Washington — as well as Washington D.C., have a minimum wage greater than $12.50, according to the non-partisan, nonprofit Economic Policy Institute.

  FOX 10 News September 15, 2020