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• 5 Ways State and Local Governments Can Make Climate Jobs Good Jobs

  Elise Gould, “State of Working America Wages 2019” (Washington: Economic Policy Institute, 2020), available at https://www.epi.org/publication/swa-wages-2019/. ↩

  Center for American Progress October 9, 2020
• No federal deal yet: What are the consequences of no stimulus?

  According to the Economic Policy Institute, the ending of weekly $600 jobless benefits in late July cut personal income by $667 billion, expressed on an annual basis, in August.

  “One way to scale this impact is to express it as the equivalent of an across-the-board pay cut for all U.S. workers — in these terms it can be thought of as an economy-wide 7.1% pay cut,” writes the EPI’s Josh Bivens. “In September’s data, when the full $600 is completely gone from personal income data, this will rise to closer to 10%.”

  MultiBriefs: Exclusive October 9, 2020
• Why you should file the FAFSA right away

  However, as important as savings may be, many Americans simply aren’t making it happen. One study from GOBankingRates showed that 57% of the 8,000 people it polled had under $1,000 in savings and 39% had nothing saved at all. And, according to the Economic Policy Institute, almost half of American families have nothing in retirement savings.

  Star-Herald October 9, 2020
• Economists, business leaders warn of ‘huge’ consequences to halting stimulus talks

  The real-world consequences of not passing new stimulus at this point in the crisis are “huge,” Heidi Shierholz, a former chief economist at the Department of Labor under the Obama administration, told ABC News.

  “It’s literally millions of jobs in the balance here,” Shierholz, who currently works as a senior economist and policy director at the Economic Policy Institute, added.

  ABC News October 9, 2020
• Trump Says ‘Don’t Be Afraid of COVID-19.’ But Do You Honestly Think You’d Get the Same Level of Care?

  As of June 2020, 8 million people have lost their insurance due to pandemic-related job loss. When family members attached to those plans are factored in, 15 million people have been left uninsured. The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a challenge to the Affordable Care Act in November. Many fear that the court could repeal the act, especially if Judge Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed. Nearly 30 million people would lose their health insurance, estimates the Economic Policy Institute.

  Well and Good October 9, 2020
• CWA Exposes AT&T’s Failures on Broadband and Good Jobs

  The reports, released by CWA, the National Digital Inclusion Alliance, and the Economic Policy Institute, cover digital redlining, AT&T’s use of subcontractors, and the effect of subcontracting and union-busting campaigns on wages for telecommunications workers.

  Communications Workers of America October 9, 2020
• Few in number, Black residents in Appalachia push for justice

  Between the last quarter of 2007, also the last quarter before the Great Recession, and the first quarter of 2020, the unemployment rate for white Kentuckians declined 1.1 percentage points, according to an Economic Policy Institute analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

  GazetteXtra October 9, 2020
• This Is an Emergency: Americans Need Relief, and Trump Is Standing in the Way

  Workers in several sectors face a full-blown crisis. According to White House economics reporter Jeff Stein, 40 percent of all restaurants face closure in the next six months. Some 50,000 airline workers face layoffs. And the Economic Policy Institute’s Heidi Shierholz told me that more than 20 million jobless workers face an income reduction of more than 60 percent on average.

  Common Dreams October 9, 2020
• The $185 million campaign to keep Uber and Lyft drivers as contractors in California
  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.”
  CNN October 9, 2020
• Puerto Rican-American Factory Worker Tells His Story of Economic Struggles in ‘The Disrupted’

  Before the negative impact COVID-19 had on the economy this year, many Americans working in manufacturing plants saw their jobs disappear over the last few years. According to the Economic Policy Institute, nearly 1,800 factories shut down during the Trump administration between 2016-2018.

  Remezcla October 9, 2020