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
Speaking to The Hill, Elise Gould, senior economist at the progressive Economic Policy Institute, stated, “Given the likelihood that states may have to re-shutter parts of their economies with the rise in cases, the job gains we saw last month may not last…”
heavy.com
July 6, 2020
However, the Economic Policy Institute estimates that 11.9 million American workers — or 7.2 percent of the total U.S. workforce — are out of work with no hope of being called back to their prior jobs. Another 5.7 million workers, or 3.5 percent of the workforce, are out of work and believe they might get called back but likely will not. In other words, more than 10 percent of the U.S. workforce is unemployed and not expecting to get its old job back.
pymnts.com
July 6, 2020
If the benefits stayed in place through the middle of 2021, they would “provide an average quarterly boost to gross domestic product (GDP) of 3.7% and employment of 5.1 million workers,” according to a recent analysis from the Economic Policy Institute’s Working Economics Blog.
The American Independent
July 6, 2020
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