A 2019 report by the Economic Policy Institute found California teachers pay an average of $664 to stock their classrooms. They pay the most out of pocket out of all teachers nationwide.
KSBY-TV
July 28, 2020
Economic Policy Institute president Thea Lee, in a statement, excoriated Senate Republicans for the insufficient state and local aid included in the HEALS Act unveiled Monday evening.
“The bill’s failure to provide any aid to state and local governments is a glaring weakness,” said Lee. “This will mean drastic cuts to essential services like health care, education, and public safety right when people need them the most. It will also cost 5.3 million jobs in both the public and private sectors by the end of 2021, as public sector cuts and layoffs cause major fallout in the private sector as well.”
Common Dreams
July 28, 2020
There are almost 39,000 veterans in the public sector, according to a recent report by the Economic Policy Institute, a higher percentage than in the private sector.
Cleveland.com
July 28, 2020
As layoffs continue, some economists fear that reduced payments won’t be enough to help struggling Americans as more states halt re-openings and businesses shutter. In May and June, 7.5 million unemployed Americans went back to work, and roughly 70% of that group would have made more drawing unemployment, according to Heidi Shierholz, senior economist and director of policy for the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
“Concerns about the work disincentive simply ignore the realities of the labor market for working people, who will be very unlikely to turn down a job for a temporary boost in benefits, particularly when it is now clear that jobs are going to be scarce for a very long time,″ Shierholz said in a blog post.
“Cutting off the $600 cannot incentivize people to get jobs that aren’t there.″
Daily Messenger
July 28, 2020
“It is absolutely providing just a crucial lifeline to millions and millions of people,” said Heidi Shierholz, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute and former chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor. “But at the same time, there just have been — and we all know this — just a huge amount of issues with getting those benefits to many, many people.”
Bloomberg
July 28, 2020
Josh Bivens, research director for the Economic Policy Institute, estimates that reducing the enhanced unemployment payments to $200 per week would cost the United States 3.4 million jobs over the next year.
Common Dreams
July 28, 2020
Child care providers receive payments from the state when they care for children from low-income families who have been approved for subsidies. Preschool teachers are six times more likely to live in poverty than K-12 teachers, according to a report by the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at UC Berkeley and the Economic Policy Institute.
EdSource
July 28, 2020
Republicans’ plan, Wyden added, “would also be devastating to the broader economy.”
He pointed to a Friday report by the Economic Policy Institute, which argues that cutting the federal boost from $600 to $200 would cost the economy 3.4 million jobs.
Think Advisor
July 28, 2020
An Economic Policy Institute study found that cutting the benefit to $200 per week would lead to 3.4 million job losses.
“The big constraint on economic growth right now is the spread of the coronavirus. If we allow the $600 supplement to lapse, another huge constraint on growth will be imposed — collapsing incomes for the tens of millions of U.S. families that had to rely on these benefits in recent months,” EPI’s Josh Bivens wrote.
The American Independent
July 28, 2020
The decline in the gender wage gap is the result of job losses, especially among women, said Elise Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington D.C. She sees it as an anomaly and the result of the pandemic’s labor market impact.
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July 28, 2020