“With this kind of slowing in job growth, it will take years to return to the pre-pandemic labor market,” wrote Elise Gould, an Economic Policy Institute (EPI) senior economist, on the group’s website. “And without the $600 boost to unemployment insurance, jobs will return even more slowly than had policymakers stepped up and continued that vital support to workers and the economy.”
Teamsters
September 10, 2020
Según un análisis del Economic Policy Institute, al ritmo del aumento de la tasa de desempleo generada por la pandemia, cerca de 12 millones de personas pueden haber perdido sus seguros de salud desde febrero.
MSN
September 10, 2020
Heidi Shierholz, economista del Economic Policy Institute, explicaba que la semana pasada es la 25 semana consecutiva en la que las solicitudes iniciales de desempleo son peores que en la peor semana de la Gran Recesión de 2008.
El Diario
September 10, 2020
The data on monthly expenses was produced internally and provided to CAP by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) as part of their Family Budget Calculator, which “measures the monthly income a family needs in order to attain a modest yet adequate standard of living.”
Center for American Progress
September 10, 2020
The Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank that opposed the Trump administration’s rule, issued a study estimating it would cost workers $1 billion per year in lost wages. Woods wrote that the administration “did not have to agree with that estimate” but they ignored it instead of doing an analysis of their own. They assumed their rule “would cost workers nothing ― an obviously unreasonable assumption,” he wrote.
The Huffington Post
September 10, 2020
A study released in August by the Economic Policy Institute found that
- Unionized workers earn on average 11.2% more in wages than non-unionized peers
- Unionized Hispanic workers are paid 20.1% more than their non-unionized peers
- Unionized Black workers are paid 13.7% more than their non-unionized peers
- Unionized White workers are paid 8.7% more than their non-unionized peers
- 94% of workers covered by a union contract have access to employer-sponsored health benefits, compared with just 68% of non-union workers
- 91% of workers covered by a union contract have access to paid sick days, compared with 73% of non-union workers
LocalSyr
September 10, 2020
About 12 million people have lost employer-provided health insurance during the pandemic, according to a new study by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). More than 6 million Americans who are unemployed lost health insurance they previously had through their work. But when you take into account spouses and children, the number of those affected more than doubles.
Boulder Weekly
September 10, 2020
“A child allowance is an idea that has remarkably broad appeal. It has a lot of support among centrists and progressives, but even Republican politicians like Mitt Romney and libertarian think tanks such as the Niskanen Center have backed versions of a child allowance,” said John Schmitt, vice president of the Economic Policy Institute.
Deseret News
September 10, 2020
But they don’t confront the larger issue: The business model of restaurants is built on the assumption of cheap labor. One out of six restaurant workers live below the poverty line, according to the Economic Policy Institute, and the industry has an exceptionally high turnover rate — 75 percent in 2018, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, compared with 49 percent for the rest of the private sector. In other words, jobs in the restaurant industry look increasingly like gig work — unstable, poorly paid and with few protections for workers.
New York Times
September 10, 2020