A report published in August 2020 by the Economic Policy Institute noted that between 2016 to 2018, the latest year of available data, nearly 1,800 manufacturing factories in the US had disappeared. The report notes coronavirus has further hit manufacturing with the loss of 740,000 jobs this year, and trade deficits that drive offshoring, particularly with China and Mexico, have continued to increase under Trump.
The Guardian
September 14, 2020
Eroding business regulations and worker protections accompanied the rise of Friedman’s philosophy in the ’70s and ’80s. Many laws passed during those decades chipped away at collective bargaining rights, which undermined pay growth for the middle class, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank. But a whole host of analyses have found that inequality has risen over the same period.
Business Insider
September 14, 2020
The approach that Price and Edwards took marks a breakthrough. The Economic Policy Institute has created a tool that shows that had U.S. workers’ wages over the past three decades kept up with increases in productivity, as they did in the three decades following World War II, someone making around $50,000 today would instead be making more than $70,000. But until now, nobody has teased out the bottom-line effects to individuals and their families of how economic growth is being shared across the income spectrum, thereby turning what can be an abstract concept into something much more tangible.
Fast Company
September 14, 2020
“All of this confusion just makes for more administrative burdens at a time when people are going longer without benefits, living standards are declining and poverty is rising after millions lost their jobs through no fault of their own from the pandemic,” says Heidi Shierholz, senior economist and director of policy at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
USA Today
September 14, 2020
“The same children whose educations were most disrupted and learning interrupted from March to June are now least likely to have the face-to-face interactions and personalized supports they need to regain lost ground,” said economist Emma García, who co-authored a report released last week on COVID-19 related inequities for the Economic Policy Institute, based in Washington, D.C.
LA Times
September 14, 2020
“He hasn’t really taken any steps to make any of the real fixes” to the H-1B program, Economic Policy Institute’s Daniel Costa said. “A lot of it has been somewhat symbolic.”
Axios
September 14, 2020
But, as in other industries, Black women in healthcare are still paid substantially less than their white male peers. Black women doctors earn 73% of the hourly wage of a non-Hispanic white man in the same role, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Black women nurses like Marissa earn 82% of the hourly wage of white male nurses.
Buzzfeed
September 11, 2020
Nevada was the state with the highest Hispanic unemployment rate for the second quarter at about 30 percent, up from about 5 percent last quarter, according to a report by the Economic Policy Institute.
Nevada Current
September 11, 2020
“[The FLSA] was drafted broadly, creating employer coverage to ensure that companies that use staffing, temp, or subcontractors in their business operations are held accountable for complying with the FLSA’s basic provisions, including minimum wage, overtime, and child labor protections,” an Economic Policy Institute letter to the Department of Labor states. “The proposed rule will make it nearly impossible for many workers to enforce these rights and will completely take away the ability of workers to recover unpaid wages from firms who use undercapitalized contractors in their work.”
Next City
September 11, 2020
Nor is this remotely a problem limited to New York. Chang’s piece inspired countless people on Twitter and elsewhere to share their own stories of dealing with dysfunctional state unemployment systems throughout the country. We’ll probably never know how many Americans were falsely denied benefits because of this dysfunction; as of late April, the Economic Policy Institute found that, for every 10 people who successfully filed, three or four couldn’t get through the system, and an additional two didn’t even try.
The New Republic
September 11, 2020