Valerie Rawlston Wilson, director of the Program on Race, Ethnicity and the Economy at the Economic Policy Institute, said schools need standards in place for teachers, staff and student safety.
At the federal level, the Trump administration has issued guidance for workers and employers in schools and other sectors, outlining standard precautions. But the guidance is largely voluntary, and so far the Trump administration has resisted calls for new regulations.
“I don’t know that parents will feel very confident in sending their students back to school if they don’t have consistent enforceable standards,” Wilson said.
NC Policy Watch
June 24, 2020
The Economic Policy Institute estimates that employers illegally deprive workers of more than $50 billion in wages each year by underpaying them or requiring unpaid work; violators are rarely punished.
The New York Times
June 24, 2020
The figure below from an Economic Policy Institute study, shows the black-white wage gap for workers in different earning percentiles, by education level, and regression-adjusted (to control for age, gender, education and regional differences). As we can see, the wage gap has grown over time regardless of measure.
Monthly Review
June 24, 2020
FFCRA is not provided by states but rather through the employers’ payrolls. Therefore, farm workers — regardless of immigration or visa status — can take advantage of this program, said Daniel Costa, director of Immigration Law and Policy Research at the Economic Policy Institute.
Currently, only 36 percent of farmworkers work in operations with 50-500 employees. The Economic Policy Institute estimates 96 percent of farms employ fewer than 50 people.
Politico Pro
June 23, 2020
As corporations and municipalities struggle to translate anger over discrimination and support for the Black Lives Matter movement into actual change, it’s crucial that they identify and commit to concrete actions. “It’s important that individual employers have a reckoning as it relates to pay and equality by race, ethnicity and gender, but it’s going to require broader and more systemic changes to really bring it down,” Valerie Wilson, director of the Economic Policy Institute’s Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy, told CNBC recently.
Forbes
June 23, 2020
The Reopen and Rebuild America’s Schools Act would:
- Invest $100 billion in grants and $30 billion in bond authority targeted at high-poverty schools with facilities that pose health and safety risks to students and staff;
- Create more 2 million jobs based on an Economic Policy Institute analysis that each $1 billion spent on construction creates 17,785 jobs
U.S. House Committee on Education & Labor
June 23, 2020
Hacker currently serves on the boards of The Century Foundation, Economic Policy Institute, and The American Prospect.
Yale News
June 23, 2020
For example, approximately 7% of people said they unsuccessfully applied for unemployment benefits or gave up because the process was too tough, according an approximate 25,000-person survey in April from the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
MarketWatch
June 23, 2020
Connecticut has the third highest degree of economic inequality in the country according to the Economic Policy Institute, a fact which is directly reflected in the funding for its public schools. This inequality has always presented challenges for students, yet it has been further exacerbated by the transition to online learning.
Inklings News
June 23, 2020
The pandemic is having a disproportionately high negative impact on Black people, as has been widely reported, with the unemployment rate for Black women hitting 16.9 percent in April, higher than that for white women, Black men and (of course) white men, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Boss Betty
June 23, 2020