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• RNC fact-check: Trump’s acceptance speech, remarks from Ivanka Trump and others

  Robert E. Scott, director of trade and manufacturing policy research for the pro-labor Economic Policy Institute, found that about 851,700 U.S. jobs were displaced by the U.S. trade deficit with Mexico from 1993 (shortly before NAFTA was implemented) to 2014. (Other studies, however, have found the job losses to have been far less.)

  NBC News August 31, 2020
• Millions of Americans have lost health insurance in this pandemic-driven recession. Here are their options

  “Because most U.S. workers rely on their employer or a family member’s employer for health insurance, the shock of the coronavirus has cost millions of Americans their jobs and their access to health care in the midst of a public health catastrophe,” said Josh Bivens, the director of research at the Economic Policy Institute, in a statement.

  CNBC August 31, 2020
• Conversations That Matter: Women hardest hit in pandemic economy

  Heidi Shierholz, a senior economist and director of policy at the Economic Policy Institute, agrees. “There is a real possibility many jobs lost by women will never come back.”

  Vancouver Sun August 31, 2020
• Should Gen Z be taking on more student loan debt? The decision’s getting ‘harder and harder,’ says an economist

  “Ideally, we’d be in a world where we didn’t have to make these trade offs,” Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, tells CNBC Select. “The decision to go to college has been made harder and harder with the rising price of tuition.” Particularly, she adds, when the college experience will not be what we’re used to.

  CNBC August 31, 2020
• EPI Clips: 8/31/20
  August 31, 2020
• Poor housing, disruptive working hours chip away at children’s ability to achieve

  Leila Morsy is a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. and a Senior Lecturer at the College of Medicine and Public Health at Flinders University. 

  The USA Today August 31, 2020
• A mayor, a filmmaker, a Navajo Nation president: Our take on Leaders of Change

  Most people don’t think about how something as day to day as shift work can affect outcomes for children in low-income neighborhoods. As a researcher at the Economic Policy Institute, Leila Morsy not only studied its impact but also petitioned corporations to change practices damaging the children of janitors, hotel maids and other shift workers.

  The USA Today August 31, 2020
• Losing the extra $600 unemployment benefit may not have stopped Americans from spending money, J.P. Morgan credit card data shows

  “When the economy’s growth is demand-constrained, anything that keeps households from cutting back on spending actually supports growth,” Josh Bivens, director of research at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, said in June. “Cutting off a policy support that helps households maintain spending is a terrible idea, both for these households’ welfare and for macroeconomic stabilization.”

  MarketWatch August 31, 2020
• U.S. Chambers’ Tone-Deaf Campaign; 12 Million Lose Insurance; Unions Members Hit By Increased Premiums

  More than 12 million Americans have lost their employer-based insurance due to the coronavirus economic downturn, according to new research from the Economic Policy Institute. Previous research has estimated that number could eventually swell to 27 million or even 43 million before the pandemic is over.

  Public Citizen August 31, 2020
• Study: Roughly 12 million Americans have lost health insurance during the pandemic

  An estimated 12 million people in this country have lost their health insurance during the COVID-19 pandemic, based on research from the Economic Policy Institute. The group looked at net employment levels between February and August 2020, and job churn levels to estimate losses of health insurance coverage.

  Scripps National News August 31, 2020