Citing federal government data, the Economic Policy Institute has said only about 30% of workers have the ability to work from home. Less than one in five black workers and roughly one in six Latino workers are able to work from home.
Boulder Weekly
July 6, 2020
Finally, the flex workers are not well surveyed. Just-in-time manufacturing often means just-in-time workers, but they don’t make the record book. The Economic Policy Institute’s Lonnie Golden, Ph.D., found in 2015 that “ten percent of the workforce is assigned to irregular and on-call work shift times and this figure is likely low.”
Forbes
July 6, 2020
Heidi Shierholz tweets on jobs report embedded in story.
NBC News
July 6, 2020
Opposing a permanent solution to these problems is fundamentally immoral. The absence of a federal paid-leave program that covers all private-sector workers also hurts our economy. It can devastate the well-being of millions of American families on tight budgets. Just “three days of unpaid sick time translate into a household’s monthly utilities budget, preventing the worker from paying for electricity and heat,” according to a report by the Economic Policy Institute.
The Hill
July 6, 2020
Since the 1970s, wages and benefits have stagnated, falling out of step with workers’ productivity. Source: Economic Policy Institute
Bloomberg BusinessWeek
July 6, 2020
Black and Hispanic or Latino workers are less likely than white workers to have jobs that allow them to telework and limit exposure, according to the Economic Policy Institute. High-wage workers are six times more likely to work from home.
Palm Springs Desert Sun
July 6, 2020
Teresa Ghilarducci is the Schwartz Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research. She’s the co-author of “Rescuing Retirement” and a member of the board of directors of the Economic Policy Institute.
Bloomberg
July 6, 2020
Over the past two decades, the U.S. has suffered from rising inequality partially due to uneven hourly wage growth. As the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) found, “since 2007, the labor market peak before the Great Recession, the strongest wage growth has continued to be within the top 10% of the wage distribution.” According to the EPI, the median hourly wage in 2019 was $19.33, which only translates to about $40,000 per year for a full-time, full-year worker.
Forbes
July 6, 2020
“In June, there were 17.8 million workers who were officially unemployed, but there were an additional 2.0 million workers who were temporarily unemployed but who were being misclassified as ’employed not at work,’” Economic Policy Institute economists Heidi Shierholz and Elise Gould write.
Axios
July 6, 2020