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• Centering Equity in the Future-of-Work Conversation Is Critical for Women’s Progress
  1. Nina Banks, “Black women’s labor market history reveals deep-seated race and gender discrimination,” Economic Policy Institute, February 19, 2019, available at https://www.epi.org/blog/black-womens-labor-market-history-reveals-deep-seated-race-and-gender-discrimination/. ↩
  2. Elise Gould and Heidi Shierholz, “Not everybody can work from home: Black and Hispanic workers are much less likely to be able to telework,” Economic Policy Institute, March 19, 2020, available at https://www.epi.org/blog/black-and-hispanic-workers-are-much-less-likely-to-be-able-to-work-from-home/. ↩
  Center for American Progress July 24, 2020
• Advocacy groups call on Trump, Pence to let public health experts manage federal COVID-19 response

  As the coronavirus spreads and the economy recloses, unemployment remains at historic highs, according to Heidi Shierholz, a senior economist and director of policy at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.

  MultiBriefs: Exclusive July 24, 2020
• Coronavirus thrusts issues of health equity into the forefront

  One of the biggest reasons African Americans are more affected by the coronavirus than other races is because a large portion of African Americans are essential workers and are at a higher risk of being exposed to the virus, Besser said. Blacks are overrepresented in essential front-line positions in grocery stores, convenience and drug stores, and health care and child services, according to a report by the Economic Policy Institute.

  The Philadelphia Tribune July 24, 2020
• African Americans got left out of the urban economic boom

  These data points aren’t just isolated indicators of racial inequality, but part of a much larger problem. “It literally shows up in everything that we could look at,” says Valerie Wilson, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute who recently co-published a report with Elise Gould on how the Covid-19 pandemic disproportionately affected Black workers in the US due to racism.

  Quartz July 24, 2020
• After Years of Underfunding, Public School Teachers Are Supposed to Save the Economy?

  Teachers now make 4.5 percent on average less than they did more than 10 years ago, according to the National Education Association, and public school teachers earn 17 percent less than what comparable workers earn, according to the Economic Policy Institute.

  The Good Men Project July 24, 2020
• Are Trump and the GOP right that the $600 unemployment bonus is discouraging work?

  As layoffs continue, some economists fear that reduced payments won’t be enough to help struggling Americans as more states halt reopenings and businesses shutter. In May and June, 7.5 million unemployed Americans went back to work, and roughly 70% of that group would have made more drawing unemployment, according to Heidi Shierholz, senior economist and director of policy for the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.

  USA Today July 24, 2020
• Black homeownership trends look bleak

  The Black-white wage gap in 2019 was about 26%, according to the Economic Policy Institute.

  Indianapolis Recorder July 24, 2020
• Here’s how much school closures will cost parents in lost wages, reduce GDP — and negatively impact the nation’s education system

  Pandemic-related job losses in the U.S. through May haven’t disproportionately affected women with young children. That’s in part because these women already have the lowest labor force participation rates of any group and so it would take a major event to move the needle, said Elise Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a labor-focused think tank.

  MarketWatch July 24, 2020
• CEO at San Antonio’s largest public companies taking home much heftier pay packages than their average employee

  Executive pay was controversial before the pandemic. The left-leaning Economic Policy Institute said in a report last year that CEOs’ incomes had grown 940 percent since 1978, while workers’ median wages rose just 12 percent.

  San Antonio Express-News July 24, 2020
• Kanye West is reportedly building a 10-bedroom mansion and 2 underground garages on his $14 million Wyoming ranch. Take a look at the sprawling property he bought last year.

  The average income of the richest 1% in the Jackson metropolitan area is more than $16.1 million, while the average income of the remaining 99% is $122,447, according to a 2018 report published by the Economic Policy Institute.

  Business Insider July 24, 2020