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• Unemployed workers anxious about future of extra $600 benefit

  Julia Wolfe, an economic analyst at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute said that if Congress does not act swiftly, and the supplement expires on the 25th, this change will represent a “huge loss of income for people in the immediate term, but also it will have serious economic consequences for the recovery down the line as well.”

  KTVU-TV July 26, 2020
• The $600 unemployment boost is likely ending. Here’s how you can access cash now

  New jobs are hard to come by right now. There are currently about 14 million more unemployed workers than job openings, according to the Economic Policy Institute.

  CNBC July 26, 2020
• With ‘economic calamity’ looming, progressive groups demand unemployment insurance benefit remain in place

  EPI tweet cited.

  Common Dreams July 26, 2020
• $600 unemployment check likely to be slashed—but GOP can’t decide how much

  Cutting unemployment benefits from $600 per week to $200 per week would lead to 3.4 million fewer jobs created over the next year, a study conducted by the Economic Policy Institute found.

  Forbes July 26, 2020
• The pandemic has laid bare just how much we need universal childcare

  There is, after all, a difference between “universal” and “affordable,” and when it comes to childcare, that difference counts for quite a lot. Childcare currently costs more than state college in many locations and sometimes more than rent. Warren, pulling from state-by-state figures by the Economic Policy Institute, put the average cost at between 9% and 36% of a family’s income.

  Medium July 26, 2020
• Least expensive place to live in every state

  24/7 Wall St. used data from the Economic Policy Institute’s Family Budget Calculator to identify the least expensive place in every state. We ranked counties based on the estimated monthly cost for a single adult to maintain a modest yet adequate standard of living.

  24/7 Wall Street July 26, 2020
• Some 2.3 million more seek jobless benefits; 52 million since March

  “This is now the 18th week in a row that unemployment insurance (UI) claims have been more than twice the ‘worst’ week of the Great Recession,” a decade ago, Economic Policy Institute Policy Director Heidi Shierholz tweeted.

  People's Weekly World July 26, 2020
• Class of 2020 leaves Maryland colleges to find uniquely bleak job market crushed by pandemic, recession

  Elise Gould, a labor economist with the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington-based think tank, said college students have been left out much of the federal pandemic relief efforts. They had to have already been working to qualify for the extra $600 in unemployment benefits, for example, and they might not have been part of a household that received the $1,200 stimulus money.

  “There could be a job-seekers’ allowance,” Gould said of a proposal that would help support graduates through unemployment. “But you would need support from both sides.”

  Baltimore Sun July 26, 2020
• ‘Unconscionable’: As unemployment claims tick upward, GOP seeks to gut $600 weekly benefit

  “Congress needs to act immediately,” Economic Policy Institute (EPI) director of policy Heidi Shierholz wrote Thursday of the need for an extension of the $600 unemployment benefit. “If they let the extra payments expire and then reinstate them, it will be a needless administrative nightmare for state agencies, and recipients—who will face a lapse in benefits several weeks in most states—will pay the price.”

  Common Dreams July 26, 2020
• How employers can approach furloughs

  Emphasize that a furlough is not about performance. The Economic Policy Institute estimates that nearly 20 million workers will be laid off or furloughed by July. That’s a sobering statistic, but it highlights that furloughs are not due to underperformance but rather economics.

  Williston Herald July 26, 2020