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.
Search HR Software
July 28, 2020
“‘We are just furloughing people until we can reopen.’ That was what a lot of those early [layoffs] looked like,” said Heidi Shierholz, senior economist and policy director at the Economic Policy Institute, who noted that many of these temporary job losses have now become permanent.
VOX
July 28, 2020
Con respecto a lo que ocurre con la crucial ayuda al desempleo, el Economic Policy Institute ha estimado que si se rebajara la ayuda extra de desempleo a $200 se reduciría la demanda de tal manera que se rebajaría el crecimiento de la economía y se se crearían 3.4 millones de empleos en el próximo año.
El Diario
July 28, 2020
In April, more than half of the adult African American population was unemployed, according to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). While the overall unemployment rate dropped to 11.1 percent in June, it continued to climb for Black men reaching 16.3 percent, according to EPI.
Truthout
July 28, 2020
Economic Policy Institute Research Director Josh Bivens joins Yahoo Finance’s Akiko Fujita to discuss why cutting UI benefits by $400 per week will significantly harm U.S. families, jobs, and growth.
Yahoo Finance
July 28, 2020
Dr. Emma Garcia has questions about whether private schools can fulfill the promises they’re making to parents during the pandemic. An economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, Garcia doubts that benefits such as more space for social distancing and low student-teacher ratios in private schools can be maintained with a surge in enrollments. Private schools tell DCist they are operating under-capacity when it comes to physical space and are having no difficulties hiring additional staff.
DCist
July 28, 2020
Features interview with Heidi Shierholz.
NPR Planet Money
July 28, 2020