“The benefits don’t only help the recipients; they also support local business where the money is spent. The Economic Policy Institute estimates that more than 5 million jobs were supported by this additional income, including 800,000 jobs in California. This program has kept the economy from suffering even more harm.
Dianne Feinstein
July 23, 2020
Economic Policy Institute research director Josh Bivens estimated that reducing the weekly unemployment insurance (UI) boost from $600 to $100 would cost the U.S. more than four million jobs over the next year.
Common Dreams
July 23, 2020
It is worth noting that according to a report on essential workers by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a nonprofit Washington-based think tank, many essential workers are not receiving basic health and safety measures, and some are dying from covid-19 as a result.
Washington Post
July 23, 2020
By requiring its workers to agree to arbitration, The Container Store is just following a national trend. A 2018 study by the Economic Policy Institute found that more than half of workers are now subject to such agreements, compared to just 2% in 1992. The contracts have likely become even more widespread since the Supreme Court’s conservative majority gave employers the green light to use them in a landmark ruling in May 2018.
Huffington Post
July 23, 2020
The Economic Policy Institute, a think tank, has suggested that Congress can create incentives for work without cutting benefits — for example, by allowing people to earn more money while still collecting unemployment.
Colorado Public Radio News
July 23, 2020
“There could be an interesting time for that discussion when jobs are actually available,” said Heidi Shierholz, senior economist and policy director at the Economic Policy Institute. “But right now that discussion just rings so false and ideological.”
VOX
July 23, 2020
Compromises under discussion include decreasing the weekly amount to $200 with a bonus to those returning to work. Whatever Congress does, there still is likely to be a gap in benefits, Heidi Shierholz, an economist at the liberal-leaning Economic Policy Institute, wrote in a recent blog post that letting extra payments expire and then reinstating them would be an “unnecessary administrative nightmare” for states.
Bangor Daily News
July 23, 2020
Economists at the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank, recommend extending the payments.
The EPI found that there are 14 million more unemployed people than job openings — so ending FPUC benefits would still leave plenty of workers without jobs waiting to receive them.
Billy Penn
July 23, 2020
Researchers at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) have said that without the extra unemployment benefits for Americans forced into joblessness, the American economy could lose about 5.1 million jobs over the next year.
Breitbart
July 23, 2020
