The data show lower-income people at higher risk of hospitalization for a variety of reasons. Minorities are more likely than whites to be employed in essential jobs and have less ability to telecommute or be paid time off when sick, according to data from the Economic Policy Institute. In general, they have higher levels of pre-existing conditions, such as diabetes and high blood pressure, putting them at greater risk of severe coronavirus infection, Dr. Anthony Fauci has said in recent interviews.
The Wall Street Journal
July 13, 2020
About 30% of Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) charges analyzed by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) were about employer improper surveillance, harassment or threats against workers. Some 30% involved allegations of illegal discipline, with one in five elections affected by charges of illegally firing workers for supporting unionization.
The Register-Mail
July 13, 2020
In framing a recent webinar on the topic, the Economic Policy Institute said the “police murders of Black people, and the demonstrations against systemic racism that followed, placed a spotlight on the nation’s long history of anti-Blackness.”
Women's Wear Daily
July 13, 2020
The economists pushed for a number of other measures, including extended unemployment benefits, enhanced SNAP benefits, additional child care funding and more. According to the Economic Policy Institute, approximately 11% of the workforce in America is unemployed and unlikely to get back their previous job in the near future.
heavy.com
July 13, 2020
As the virus has raged longer than first expected, some companies are concluding that they just don’t need as many workers as they did in February, said Heidi Shierholz, former chief economist at the Labor Department. “These are more of a normal recession layoff. It definitely has a more permanent feel to it,” said Shierholz, now with the Economic Policy Institute.
The Washington Post
July 13, 2020
About half of workers in non-child care occupations receive health insurance from their job, but only 15 percent of child care workers do, according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). EPI also found that one in seven child care workers live in families with income below the official poverty line.
Truthout
July 13, 2020
These essential roles tend to attract people who have been systemically disadvantaged from an academic perspective—those who haven’t had the opportunity or privilege to attend a higher institution, or who immigrated here to America. According to the Economic Policy Institute, nearly 70 percent of essential workers do not have a college degree. Thirty percent of essential workers have some college or a high school diploma. One in 10 have less than a high school diploma.
Well and Good
July 13, 2020
A March report from the Economic Policy Institute found that only a third of American workers could telework—an option that provides the best opportunity for personal safety. But for Latinx and Black workers, this rate was even lower: less than one in five had that option.
The Root
July 13, 2020
“To mitigate the economic harm to workers, Congress should extend the across-the-board $600 increase in weekly unemployment benefits well past its expiration at the end of July,” Julia Wolfe, economic analyst at the think-tank Economic Policy Institute wrote in a note.
Al Jazeera
July 13, 2020
Those losses are expected to hit women and Black workers the hardest, according to David Cooper and Julia Wolfe, analysts at the Economic Policy Institute. “Failing to provide aid to state and local governments would be not only an act of needless self-sabotage, it would also exacerbate racial and gender disparities,” they wrote in a blog post on Thursday.
Courthouse News Service
July 13, 2020