While the number of renters at risk of eviction is debated, Pima County Justice Courts data from June reveal evictions have been — and will likely continue to be — far more prevalent in neighborhoods home to more people of color. Black, Latino and Indigenous people are more likely to be renters and more likely to work in industries negatively impacted by the pandemic, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Arizona Public Media
July 17, 2020
At the end of June, 32 million people were receiving some jobless benefits. The extra $600 in weekly unemployment benefits is set to expire this month, meaning many people may have to cut spending drastically if it is not extended. According to the Economic Policy Institute, there are 14 million more unemployed workers than open jobs.
CBS News
July 17, 2020
“During this pandemic crisis, those who have been told they’re self-employed, their employer hasn’t been paying into unemployment insurance or workers compensation or providing them with sick leave,” said Lawrence Mishel, a senior labor-market economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a pro-labor think tank.
“They are very vulnerable to losing their job and getting sick,” Mishel added.
Las Vegas Review-Journal
July 17, 2020
According to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, the average annual cost of infant care in Georgia is $8,530. The federal government should partner with local providers to make child care services free at point of service. Families who prefer to provide child care at home should be able to forego their spot in exchange for a home child care benefit.
The Red and Black
July 17, 2020
“You have people who get thrown into these terrible situations because of the timing, because of the lapse that is absolutely unnecessary,” said Heidi Shierholz, senior economist and director of policy at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
The Hill
July 17, 2020
Workers’ wages are already “extremely low by any measure, even when compared with similarly situated nonfarm workers and workers with the lowest levels of education,” an Economic Policy Institute (EPI) report found in April.
Workday Minnesota
July 17, 2020
It used data from the Census Bureau’s 1-year American Community Survey from 2018, the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program from 2018, 2019 County Health Rankings, the National Partnership for Women and Families’ and the Economic Policy Institute.
Fox Business
July 17, 2020
“After decades, if not centuries, of unequal housing opportunities, people of color might be more likely to live in places where physical distancing is not an option,” Dr. Liu said, a point that the CDC has noted as well. They may also be more likely to occupy jobs as essential workers who don’t have the option of working from home, or in jobs where personal protective equipment is not as widely-provided (as opposed to essential workers in the medical field, for example.) Data from the Economic Policy Institute, for example, shows that people of color account for the majority of essential workers in food and agriculture and in industrial, commercial, residential facilities and services.
Popsugar
July 17, 2020
According to the Economic Policy Institute, during the pandemic 36.4 million people have applied for unemployment benefits nationwide and 2.4 million workers applied for benefits just last week, 50,000 of them from Michigan.
“That is the 17th week in a row that unemployment claims have been more than twice the worst week of the Great Recession,” said Heidi Shierholz, the senior economist and director of policy at Economic Policy Institute.
FOX 32
July 17, 2020
“As people continue to lose their jobs, which we expect that they will do unfortunately, we’re going to see losses in health insurance coverage,” Ben Zipperer, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), previously told Yahoo Finance. “That’s because in the United States, we’ve chosen as a country, unfortunately, to tie access to health insurance with employment.”
“If we avoided that,” he added, “if we made sure everybody was covered, everybody has access to health insurance regardless of their employment status, we wouldn’t be in this kind of predicament.”
Yahoo Finance
July 17, 2020