According to a report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), white workers on average routinely bring home a higher hourly wage than their Black and Hispanic counterparts. The pattern holds for most education levels, including those with a college degree. White workers in that group outpace Black workers by more than $7 per hour on average.
Spectrum News
July 26, 2020
However, stating that employees “should” stay home is not the same as telling employers they must provide alternative work arrangements to enable those 65 and older to work from home. And even if an employer lets older employees work from home, according to a study from the Economic Policy Institute, only 25 percent of those over 65 are able to work remotely.
Stamford Advocate
July 26, 2020
The event comes as 39% of child care providers have closed their doors in Wisconsin by the end of May due to the pandemic, according to a July report from the Wisconsin Policy Forum—and as many as half of all providers in central Wisconsin counties like Portage and Adams. The Economic Policy Institute cites Wisconsin as the 20th most expensive state in the country for child care, at an annual cost per year of more than $12,000–higher than some college tuition.
WSAW FOX 7
July 26, 2020
She’s received about $2,000. That kind of money is a godsend in this pandemic-shocked economy, said Heidi Shierholz at the Economic Policy Institute, calling it “absolutely essential.”
Marketplace
July 26, 2020
Make no mistake, the economy needs help. On Thursday, new weekly unemployment claims data provided more bad news, rising for the first time in almost four months and indicating a softening job market. Of course, claims all along have been showing that the economy is in deep trouble. Heidi Shierholz of the Economic Policy Institute reminds us this is “the 18th week in a row that unemployment claims have been more than twice the worst week of the Great Recession.”
Forbes
July 24, 2020
“Each dollar of unemployment insurance boosts economy-wide spending by $2,” said Lily Roberts, director of economic mobility at the Center for American Progress. “The Economic Policy Institute estimates that letting the $600 unemployment insurance extension expire would by itself lead to more job loss than happened in the recessions of the early 1990s or early 2000s.”
CNET
July 24, 2020
- Nina Banks, “Black women’s labor market history reveals deep-seated race and gender discrimination,” Economic Policy Institute, February 19, 2019, available at https://www.epi.org/blog/black-womens-labor-market-history-reveals-deep-seated-race-and-gender-discrimination/.
- Elise Gould and Heidi Shierholz, “Not everybody can work from home: Black and Hispanic workers are much less likely to be able to telework,” Economic Policy Institute, March 19, 2020, available at https://www.epi.org/blog/black-and-hispanic-workers-are-much-less-likely-to-be-able-to-work-from-home/.
Center for American Progress
July 24, 2020
As the coronavirus spreads and the economy recloses, unemployment remains at historic highs, according to Heidi Shierholz, a senior economist and director of policy at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.
MultiBriefs: Exclusive
July 24, 2020
One of the biggest reasons African Americans are more affected by the coronavirus than other races is because a large portion of African Americans are essential workers and are at a higher risk of being exposed to the virus, Besser said. Blacks are overrepresented in essential front-line positions in grocery stores, convenience and drug stores, and health care and child services, according to a report by the Economic Policy Institute.
The Philadelphia Tribune
July 24, 2020
These data points aren’t just isolated indicators of racial inequality, but part of a much larger problem. “It literally shows up in everything that we could look at,” says Valerie Wilson, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute who recently co-published a report with Elise Gould on how the Covid-19 pandemic disproportionately affected Black workers in the US due to racism.
Quartz
July 24, 2020