Josh Bivens, research director for the Economic Policy Institute, estimates that reducing the enhanced unemployment payments to $200 per week would cost the United States 3.4 million jobs over the next year.
Common Dreams
July 28, 2020
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
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
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
Features interview with Heidi Shierholz.
NPR Planet Money
July 28, 2020
According to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute, as many as 11.9 million workers have zero chance of returning to their prior jobs as temporary job losses become permanent ones.
VOX
July 27, 2020
If benefits were extended through the middle of 2021, Josh Bivens, director of research at the nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute, estimates GDP would grow 3.7 percent a quarter on average and support the employment of 5.1 million workers.
Inc.
July 27, 2020