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• Wichita Falls housing prices outpace median wages

  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
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  October 8, 2020
• Learning Beyond the Screen

  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
• Refuge in the Storm? ACA’s Role as Safety Net Is Tested by COVID Recession

  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
• The $300 unemployment payment is over in many states with little hope for an extension

  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
• The Fed warned of ‘tragic’ consequences if the US didn’t do more to support its economic recovery. Hours later, Trump killed talks around more stimulus.

  “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
• Tracking The Uninsured Rate In 2019 And 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
• Una economía a la espera de oxígeno federal

  “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
• What If Donald Trump Had Handled The Pandemic A Little More Like Bolsonaro?

  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
• What’s the status of a second $1,200 stimulus check?

  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