This message resonated with voters because it is not totally unfounded. As a result of a growing trade gap with China between exports and imports, we have witnessed the relocation of millions of American jobs in the past two decades. In the first two years of Trump’s presidency, the number of reallocated jobs grew by over 700,000, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
The Daily Free Press
October 15, 2020
They also are among 625,000 essential workers in Michigan and more than 55 million throughout the United States, 70 percent of whom do not have a college degree, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Second Wave Southwest Michigan
October 15, 2020
The unemployment rate has improved since it skyrocketed in the spring, but millions of Americans remain out of work. And the Economic Policy Institute noted last week that Labor Department figures for September show long-term unemployment rising, with about 7.3 million workers unemployed for at least 15 weeks and 2.4 million for 27 weeks or longer. At the same time, the pace at which the nation was regaining jobs appeared to slow down last month.
Route Fifty
October 13, 2020
It only adds to the thousands of manufacturing jobs lost under Trump’s administration as he claims that he’s bringing the sector back to live.
“The Trump administration has taken credit for ‘reshoring’ manufacturing jobs, but the data show that isn’t true. Nearly 1,800 factories have disappeared under Trump between 2016 and 2018,” said EPI Senior Economist and Director of Trade and Manufacturing Research Robert E. Scott. “Additionally, the U.S. trade deficit in manufactured goods rose significantly between 2016 and 2019. In fact, the real U.S. trade deficit has increased in every year since 2016, reducing GDP growth by roughly 0.25% annually over the past three years. Compounded with the devastation left by the coronavirus pandemic, the blue-collar manufacturing workers need serious help from policymakers.”
Raw Story
October 13, 2020
In 2016, the typical white family had a net worth nearly 10 times that of a Black family, according to a Brookings Institute analysis. Moreover in 2019, the average wage gap between a Black and white worker in the U.S. was 26.5%, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
ABC News
October 13, 2020
Nearly 27 million workers are either receiving or have applied for unemployment benefits, including the 1.3 million who filed for either state or federal pandemic benefits just last week, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Senate Republicans let a weekly $600 unemployment benefit for workers impacted by the pandemic expire in July, and funding for a $300 weekly benefit provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) under Trump’s direction is already exhausted in states across the country. FEMA will be unable to provide more emergency unemployment funding unless Congress agrees on a stimulus.
Truthout
October 13, 2020
A 2019 report by the Economic Policy Institute found that for every 100 professional, scientific and technical services jobs created in the private sector in the U.S., 418 additional, indirect jobs are created as a result. Nearly 575 additional jobs are created for every 100 information jobs, and 206 additional jobs are created for every 100 healthcare and social assistance jobs.
TechCrunch
October 13, 2020
Yes on 22 has positioned worker flexibility at the center of its
television and social media campaigns, and indeed, for many workers the ability to work whenever they want by just opening an app is very appealing.
But contrary to the Yes campaign’s positioning, there’s nothing in California law that prevents companies from providing such flexibility to workers, regardless of employment status, as some labor experts have pointed out. Terri Gerstein of the Harvard Labor and Worklife Program and Economic Policy Institute called it a
“faux concern.”In fact, it’s spelled out in
AB-5 that “nothing in this act is intended to diminish the flexibility of employees to work part-time or intermittent schedules or to work for multiple employers.”
CNN Business
October 13, 2020
In keeping with that expansive definition, Judis emphasizes the broad socialist “network” that’s emerged today, which extends well beyond DSA card-carriers. It includes a range of progressive think tanks (like the Economic Policy Institute and the Roosevelt Institute) and magazines; most importantly, it includes not just the avowed socialists in elected office but a host of progressives whose politics are indistinguishable from the socialists’ politics, as Elizabeth Warren’s were from Sanders’s.
The American Prospect
October 13, 2020