At least one survey from the Economic Policy Institute found that millions of Americans gave up trying to seek benefits or didn’t even start the process due to states’ overwhelmed and antiquated unemployment systems.
Associated Press
July 6, 2020
$459: The amount the average teacher spends of their own money for classroom items, per an analysis of data from the past decade by the Economic Policy Institute. The vast majority of this will not be reimbursed.
Romper
July 6, 2020
With more than 3 million Californians out of work, according to the Economic Policy Institute, Chiu said his office has been flooded with an “unprecedented number” of complaints about interactions with the EDD. Wiener echoed this sentiment, and said that his district staff have been spending the “bulk of their time” helping people get benefits.
KTVU-TV
July 6, 2020
Due to persistent classification errors, the jobs report also likely underestimates the true impact of the pandemic on workers. According to the Economic Policy Institute, about 7 million unemployed workers are either misclassified as “employed not at work” or considered to have dropped out of the labor force since the outbreak hit. “Altogether, that is 24.5 million workers who are either officially unemployed or otherwise out of work as a result of the virus. If all these workers were taken into account, the unemployment rate would be a whopping 15.0%,” EPI economists Elise Gould and Heidi Shierholz said in a statement Thursday.
Sinclair Broadcast Group
July 6, 2020
Health insurance for twisted historical and political reasons remains tied to jobs. When people lose work, health protection is also gone. Back in mid-May, the Economic Policy Institute estimated that 16.2 million workers had lost employer-provided health insurance. That was before the full extent of job losses would be known.
Forbes
July 6, 2020
Trump’s recent proclamation temporarily bans guestworkers from coming to the United States, but what does it actually do? Daniel Costa of the Economic Policy Institute explains.
Dissent Magazine
July 6, 2020
“Without massive additional federal aid, austerity is certainly on the horizon for state and local governments, because state and local tax revenues are plummeting,” wrote Elise Gould and Heidi Shierholz, economists at the Economic Policy Institute.
The Hill
July 6, 2020
When asked to back up the claim, America First Action spokesperson Kelly Sadler pointed to a Jan. 30 report from the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank.
USA Today
July 6, 2020
Exposing as a fraud the claim that the supplemental benefit is keeping workers from returning to work, new research by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) published on June 29 shows that some 17.6 million workers have no prospect of returning to a job at all.
World Socialist Web Site
July 6, 2020
Meanwhile, here in early July, the coronavirus pandemic is still setting national caseload records, and weekly unemployment claim totals have over the last 15 consecutive weeks run more than twice as high, the Economic Policy Institute reports, as the worst jobless claim week of the Great Recession.
Inequality.org
July 6, 2020