Heidi Shierholz, economista del Economic Policy Institute, explicaba que la semana pasada es la 25 semana consecutiva en la que las solicitudes iniciales de desempleo son peores que en la peor semana de la Gran Recesión de 2008.
El Diario
September 10, 2020
The data on monthly expenses was produced internally and provided to CAP by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) as part of their Family Budget Calculator, which “measures the monthly income a family needs in order to attain a modest yet adequate standard of living.”
Center for American Progress
September 10, 2020
The Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank that opposed the Trump administration’s rule, issued a study estimating it would cost workers $1 billion per year in lost wages. Woods wrote that the administration “did not have to agree with that estimate” but they ignored it instead of doing an analysis of their own. They assumed their rule “would cost workers nothing ― an obviously unreasonable assumption,” he wrote.
The Huffington Post
September 10, 2020
A study released in August by the Economic Policy Institute found that
- Unionized workers earn on average 11.2% more in wages than non-unionized peers
- Unionized Hispanic workers are paid 20.1% more than their non-unionized peers
- Unionized Black workers are paid 13.7% more than their non-unionized peers
- Unionized White workers are paid 8.7% more than their non-unionized peers
- 94% of workers covered by a union contract have access to employer-sponsored health benefits, compared with just 68% of non-union workers
- 91% of workers covered by a union contract have access to paid sick days, compared with 73% of non-union workers
LocalSyr
September 10, 2020
A report by Yale economists found no such evidence, however, the Economic Policy Institute did find evidence that the spending from that extra unemployment insurance was supporting about 5 million jobs.
WPIX-TV (NYC)
September 9, 2020
Bloomberg News reports that the Biden campaign is set to roll out new plans aimed to keep manufacturing jobs in America. The Economic Policy Institute estimates that nearly eighteen hundred american factories closed between 2016 and 2018.
WJXX-TV (Jacksonville)
September 9, 2020
Sappi North America’s 2019 Sustainability Report quotes an October 2019 paper by Josh Bivens of the Economic Policy Institute, which found that 100 jobs in paper and pulp mills support 468 jobs in related industries, such as logging and transportation, and 218 in service industries, such as restaurants and retail. This economic ripple effect in turn supports local schools, infrastructure, and organizations.
Maine Magazine
September 9, 2020
The slower flow of exploitable migrant labor explains why farm employers are lobbying for an expansion and deregulation of the H-2A program. “When comprehensive immigration reform has been on the table that has included a possible path to citizenship for unauthorized immigrants, the one demand from the business community has been for bigger guest worker programs with fewer rules,” says Daniel Costa, Director of Immigration Law and Policy Research at the Economic Policy Institute.
As of late June, the Trump administration virtually shut down the immigration system apart from agriculture guest worker visas and a few other exceptions, citing the familiar excuse of protecting American jobs during economic crisis. But it’s U.S. employers—not immigrants—that limit lifting the floors for all workers.
“If you raise standards in guest worker programs and legalize the undocumented population, then you reduce that ability of employers to push down wages and standards for everybody,” says Costa. “It should really be a common cause of solidarity; immigrant workers and U.S.-born workers, especially in the low-wage sector, have a lot more in common than not.”
September 9, 2020
In “50 years after the Kerner Commission,” a 2018 Economic Policy Institute report, Janelle Jones, John Schmitt and Valerie Wilson found that “African Americans today are much better educated than they were in 1968” and that this development “has been accompanied by significant absolute improvements in wages, incomes, wealth, and health.”
New York Times
September 9, 2020
The ruling came in the case of New York et al v Scalia et al., brought in February by New York Attorney General Letitia James, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro and 16 other attorneys general. In challenging the rule, they argued that it would impose significant regulatory burdens on states and would harm states’ economies and residents. The Economic Policy Institute estimated that the rule would cost workers more than $1 billion annually, Woods noted.
McKnight’s Senior Living
September 9, 2020