The median wealth of a white family is nearly 12 times that of a Black family, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
NBC News
June 22, 2020
The Economic Policy Institute reports April’s domestic unemployment rate for African-American women across all industries at 16.9%. That’s versus 12.8% for white men. Viewed another way, Pew Research Center has found black female employment declined by 17% from February to May, compared with a 9% drop for white men. Employment for LatinX women, who fill 14% of leisure and hospitality jobs, fell by 21%
Forbes
June 22, 2020
New York City’s top 1 percent, for example, earn average incomes about 40 times higher than the bottom 99 percent, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Al Jazeera
June 22, 2020
It all goes hand-in-hand with economic subjugation, which is meant to withhold from black Americans the “absolute equality of rights and rights of property” promised on Juneteenth 1865. As the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) reported in 2015, the United States “has a dual criminal justice system that has helped to maintain the economic and social hierarchy in America, based on the subjugation of blacks … public policy, criminal justice actors, society and the media, and criminal behavior have all played roles in creating what sociologist Loic Wacquant calls the hyperincarceration of black men.”
Enid News & Eagle
June 22, 2020
A recent report by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) found black and Hispanic workers are disproportionately affected by the pandemic, facing greater economic and health insecurity than white workers.
The Caswell Messenger
June 22, 2020
Researchers at the Economic Policy Institute say nationwide, job losses remain at historic levels, with more than one in five workers either relying on unemployment benefits or still waiting for their claims to be processed.
Public News Service
June 22, 2020
While affluent Americans have been able to work from home and continue to earn a living during the pandemic, many in the African American community haven’t been able to do so. The Economic Policy Institute found that less than one-in-five black workers are able to work from home, compared to roughly one-in-three white workers.
The Hill
June 22, 2020
HOUSE EDUCATION PANEL TO DISCUSS INEQUITIES, COVID-19 TODAY: The House Education and Labor Committee today will hold a hearing on “Inequities Exposed: How COVID-19 Widened Racial Inequities in Education, Health, and the Workforce.” It starts at noon and can be watched via Webex.
— Members will hear from: Camara P. Jones, adjunct professor at Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University; Valerie Rawlston Wilson, director of the Economic Policy Institute’s program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy; Avik Roy, president of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity; and John B. King Jr., president of The Education Trust and former Education secretary under President Barack Obama.
Politico Morning Education
June 22, 2020
Heidi Shierholz, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, suggested that the total number of workers currently receiving benefits or waiting for them is probably close to 34.5 million.
Politico Morning Shift
June 22, 2020
Lawmakers will hear from Camara P. Jones, adjunct professor at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University; Valerie Rawlston Wilson, director of the Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy at the Economic Policy Institute; Avik Roy, co-founder and president of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity; and John B. King, Jr., president and CEO of The Education Trust.
PBS Newshour
June 22, 2020