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
“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
The Economic Policy Institute found that Black workers faced high rates of job loss. Workers of color are overrepresented in industries hit hardest by pandemic-related layoffs, including domestic workers and restaurant employees, and Black and Latino workers are less likely to have the ability to work from home.
NJ.com
August 31, 2020
But Heidi Sheirholz, economist at the Economic Policy Institute, is worried that the recent wave of layoffs at big companies signals something more permanent.
“We’re still in a terrible hole,’’ Shierholz said. “The fact that jobs growth is slowing is devastating.’’
The Associated Press
August 31, 2020
Republicans’ 2017 tax cuts were the party’s landmark policy around this issue. Trump promised the cuts would lead companies to give “billions and billions of dollars away to their workers” — but they didn’t. One study from the left-leaning think tank Economic Policy Institute, a year after the tax bill was passed, found the tax bill’s bonuses only resulted in an average 1 cent hourly raise for workers. In the years that followed, companies have mostly spent their windfall buying back shares, boosting stock prices for executives and wealthy shareholders.
Yahoo Finance
August 31, 2020
In a blog post Thursday after the U.S. Labor Department reported that 1.4 million more Americans filed unemployment claims last week, Heidi Shierholz of the Economic Policy Institute wrote that Trump’s unemployment directive “is doing more harm than good” and urged Congress to urgently revive the $600-per-week supplement.
Raw Story
August 31, 2020
“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
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
“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