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• The States With the Worst Public Sector Job Losses During the Coronavirus Crisis

  Job losses in state and local government during the course of the pandemic—from March through June—have totaled about 1.5 million, estimates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show. The liberal-leaning Economic Policy Institute this week issued a report that looks at those losses in each state, using figures that the bureau released this month.

  Route Fifty July 31, 2020
• U.S. Economy Contracted at Record Rate Last Quarter; Jobless Claims Rise to 1.43 Million

  “We are still seeing unprecedented kinds of layoffs,” said Heidi Shierholz, economist at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. “There really has been this stalling out of the improvement that we were seeing.”

  The Wall Street Journal July 31, 2020
• Unemployment Claims Edged Higher Last Week — Update

  “We are still seeing unprecedented kinds of layoffs,” said Heidi Shierholz, economist at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. “There really has been this stalling out of the improvement that we were seeing.”

  MarketScreener July 31, 2020
• Historic freefall: Economy shrinks by 33 percent, 2M more jobless

  “GDP collapsed faster in the second quarter of 2020 than it has in any other recorded quarter of U.S. history. Congress needs to restore the extra $600 in unemployment insurance and provide large-scale, flexible aid to state and local governments,” the Economic Policy Institute tweeted.

  People’s World July 31, 2020
• Lack of aid to states could hit Black and women workers hard

  “The public sector disproportionately employs workers that have historically had more trouble in the labor market due to issues around discrimination,” said John Schmitt, vice president of the Economic Policy Institute.

  “We never caught up again,” said Sylvia Allegretto, co-chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at the University of California, Berkeley. “So we have a huge gap.”

  Marketplace July 31, 2020
• In Our View: Republican unemployment aid plan off base

  “Cutting off the $600 cannot incentivize people to get jobs that aren’t there,” said Heidi Shierholz, director of policy at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute and a former chief economist at the Labor Department, CNBC reported.

  The Columbian July 31, 2020
• Social distancing ‘substantially varies’ by income: study

  Perhaps the most obvious reason is that lower-income workers are less likely to have the option to work from home compared to upper- and middle-class workers. Less than 30% of workers overall can work from home, and low-wage workers have the least flexibility of all. Just 9.2% of workers in the lowest quartile of the wage distribution can work remotely, compared with 61.5% of workers in the highest quartile, according to the Economic Policy Institute.

  MarketWatch July 31, 2020
• The States With the Worst Public Sector Job Losses During the Coronavirus Crisis

  Job losses in state and local government during the course of the pandemic—from March through June—have totaled about 1.5 million, estimates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show. The liberal-leaning Economic Policy Institute this week issued a report that looks at those losses in each state, using figures that the bureau released this month.

  Route Fifty July 31, 2020
• U.S. Economy Contracted at Record Rate Last Quarter; Jobless Claims Rise to 1.43 Million

  “We are still seeing unprecedented kinds of layoffs,” said Heidi Shierholz, economist at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. “There really has been this stalling out of the improvement that we were seeing.”

  The Wall Street Journal July 31, 2020
• Unemployment Claims Edged Higher Last Week — Update

  “We are still seeing unprecedented kinds of layoffs,” said Heidi Shierholz, economist at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. “There really has been this stalling out of the improvement that we were seeing.”

  MarketScreener July 31, 2020