“It’ll be crucial that that investment is made so that these are actually decent jobs for the people who are holding them,” said Shierholz, now policy director at the Economic Policy Institute.
Politico
June 25, 2020
Para Heidi Shierholz, del Economic Policy Institute, el aumento de seguro por desempleo fue la mejor parte del plan de recuperación por coronavirus aprobado bajo CARES Act tanto “humanitariamente como en fundamentos económicos”.
El Diario
June 25, 2020
But while the outlook is optimistic, the gains are not being enjoyed evenly, said Elise Gould, senior economist for the Economic Policy Institute, who said white workers are benefiting disproportionately.
“An increase in jobs is a positive sign but a concern that isn’t broadly shared is the Black unemployment rate showed no improvement nationally, it actually increased,” Gould said.
Cronkite News
June 25, 2020
Raising the minimum wage during the coronavirus pandemic is smart policy, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Yahoo Finance’s Sibile Marcellus joins Akiko Fujita to discuss.
Yahoo Finance
June 25, 2020
According to the Economic Policy Institute, 60% of the H-1B positions in the fiscal year 2019 were at a wage lower than the local average wage. Increasingly, H-1Bs are used less to secure hard-to-find competencies than they are to subvert the American worker market to get foreign labor at a discount.
Detroit Free Press
June 25, 2020
According to a study of one bank’s arbitration program completed by the Economic Policy Institute, individual arbitration results in the average employee-claimant paying the bank US$11,000.[11] As such, the employees’ incentive to attempt to gain an advantage on a group-wide scale should not be underestimated. Where the average claimant can end up owing US$11,000 in some contexts, it is no surprise that employees and employees’ counsel are looking for ways to harness the negotiating power of mass arbitration.
The National Law Review
June 25, 2020
Coupled with other coronavirus relief measures, the extra $600 in enhanced benefits has helped many Americans stay afloat — and even save more than usual — throughout the pandemic, with some economists calling it the “best” part of the economic response to the coronavirus. The $600 increase has been “one of the most effective parts of the CARES Act on both humanitarian and economic grounds,” writes Heidi Shierholz, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank.
CNBC
June 25, 2020
“In case the administration hasn’t noticed, the immigration system is already shut down, almost entirely, as a result of the pandemic,” said Daniel Costa, an attorney with the Economic Policy Institute in Washington.
“Considering the number of new coronavirus infections continues to increase rapidly in the United States and abroad, it’s difficult to imagine the immigration system opening back up anytime soon,” Costa wrote in an analysis published Tuesday.
“Would any of the banned visas have been issued in these programs before the end of the year absent this proclamation? I’m not convinced they would have.”
Voice of America
June 25, 2020
“There’s still this two tracks of this ongoing hemorrhaging of jobs while we also see a lot of people getting rehired,” said Heidi Shierholz, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute.
The Wall Street Journal
June 25, 2020