A report released in May by the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, found that the typical domestic worker in the U.S. is paid a median $12.01 per hour. And just one in five domestic workers receives health-insurance coverage through his or her job.
The Wall Street Journal
October 8, 2020
Another recent study, using different methods, reported higher numbers for the same period. The analysis released by the Economic Policy Institute last month determined that between April and July 6.2 million people lost employer coverage. The authors didn’t calculate how many found alternative coverage via Medicaid or the ACA, however.
Benefits Pro
October 8, 2020
To some economists, a premature end to government support risks repeating mistakes made after the 2008 housing bubble collapse. Layoffs then by cash-strapped state and local agencies delayed the return to prerecession unemployment rates by four years, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Washington Post
October 8, 2020
In March, like the rest of the country, our region’s schools abruptly went virtual and a massive experiment began. Many parents suddenly found themselves overseeing technology and schooling while working from home or after completing their shifts at their essential jobs.
Heidi Shierholz, Senior Economist and Director of Policy, Economic Policy Institute; @hshierholz
WAMU 88.5
October 8, 2020
Outdated unemployment insurance systems in some states collapsed from the influx of applicants who lost their job during the pandemic. As a result, only 71% of applicants received benefits by April 11, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
KTVN News
October 8, 2020
According to the Economic Policy Institute, since the era of slavery, the dominant view of black women has been that they should be workers, a view that contributed to their devaluation as mothers with caregiving needs at home.
The Washington Informer
October 8, 2020
Another recent study, using different methods, reported higher numbers for the same period. The analysis released by the Economic Policy Institute last month determined that between April and July 6.2 million people lost employer coverage. The authors didn’t calculate how many found alternative coverage via Medicaid or the ACA, however.
Kaiser Health News
October 8, 2020
If Congress decides to reinstate a federal unemployment benefit bonus — in any amount — it will likely take two to four weeks for payments to flow to states and then recipients, according to the Economic Policy Institute. So far, the proposal has been introduced only in the Senate. Democratic congressional leaders are currently negotiating with the GOP on the particulars of the plan.
CNET
October 8, 2020
“This is incredibly cruel and also just terrible economics,” Heidi Shierholz, the director of policy at the Economic Policy Institute, said. Many Americans living through the pandemic without work relied on bolstered unemployment benefits for necessary purchases. The expansion has since dried up, leaving jobless families to stretch their dollar even further.
“It’ll mean more people dropping into poverty and people making terrible choices between rent, medicine, and food on the table,” Shierholz added.
Markets Insider
October 8, 2020
Although definitive data will not be available until 2021, numerous studies have estimated the effect of the 2020 recession on job-based coverage and the uninsured rate. Analyses have been conducted by Avalere Health, the Commonwealth Fund, the Economic Policy Institute, Families USA, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and the Urban Institute, among others. The Urban Institute even conducted a separate analysis of some of these studies to compare their assumptions and estimates.
HealthAffairs
October 8, 2020