“Hasta 33 millones de trabajadores han sido perjudicados por la recesión por no tener empleo o por tener sus horas y su salario reducido”, explican los economistas del Economic Policy Institute.
El Diario
October 8, 2020
More than 21 million Americans are currently unemployed, and another 11.5 million have seen reduced hours and pay during the pandemic, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal think tank. Although the unemployment rate has fallen from its pandemic peak, job growth is slowing and the number of layoffs has increased. The lack of new stimulus funding risks turning the U.S. economy into “a wasteland,” economists have warned.
Huffington Post
October 8, 2020
Economists say other relief policies have proved more effective at boosting the economy. For instance, an extra $600 in weekly unemployment pay helped bolster households that had suffered job or income losses — until it expired in July. In May alone, the program boosted personal income by $842 billion, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
CBS News
October 8, 2020
Heidi Shierholz, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, estimated that at least 33m workers have been harmed directly, after taking account of misclassification, undercounting, those who have dropped out of the labour force and those whose hours and pay were cut after the reimposition of local lockdowns.
Financial Times
October 8, 2020
“Nobody knows exactly how many people are receiving unemployment insurance benefits right now,” said Heidi Shierholz, policy director at the Economic Policy Institute and former chief economist at the Labor Department. That is a “reminder that we need to invest heavily in our data infrastructure and technology.”
AP News
October 8, 2020
It’s a lesson that Heidi Schierholz, director of policy at the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute who was chief economist at the Labor Department during the Obama administration, said she thought the country had learned from the Great Recession: A lack of support for state and local governments will put a drag on the economy and slow the recovery.
“Austerity at the state and local level could cost millions of jobs,” Schierholz said. “It’s just massive, and it makes me want to scream, because this is a totally unforced error. We know how this plays out.”
NBC News
October 8, 2020
The Economic Policy Institute said while wages for high-income earners has grown steadily since the 1980s, wages for middle- and low-income workers has flattened, or even declined when adjusted for inflation.
Times Record 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