Most students are taught about the Jim Crow-era efforts to keep schools separate and unequal, but fewer probably know contemporary education shows levels of segregation not seen since before the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v Board of Education decision. For example, a recent report by the Economic Policy Institute found that black children are five times as likely as white children to attend racially and ethnically segregated schools and twice as likely to attend “high-poverty” schools.
The Washington Post
June 22, 2020
“The missing piece is hiring,” said Heidi Shierholz, a former Department of Labor economist and director of policy at the Economic Policy Institute, in a blog post. “If there are a large number of layoffs, there can still be job growth if there is also a lot of hiring (or rehiring). In today’s gradually reopening coronavirus economy, hires (or rehires) are now outpacing job losses, but we are still seeing a huge number of people losing jobs.”
Sinclair Broadcast Group
June 22, 2020
The report is a drab reminder of the poor employment landscape, despite a stunning jobs report that showed nonfarm jobs rose by 2.5 million in May. “We would need to see the same level of job growth for months and months and months to fill in the current jobs deficit,” said Heidi Shierholz, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute.
Courthouse News Service
June 22, 2020
New research by the Economic Policy Institute connects the murder of George Floyd to a much older history of extrajudicial murder by the country’s “law enforcement” agents and other white enforcers of the color line:
Salon
June 22, 2020
While some companies are rehiring as states loosen restrictions and the number of initial claims dropped slightly, the 1.5 million people who applied for benefits was still historic. “It’s still more than twice the worst week of the Great Recession,” Heidi Shierholz, director of policy at the liberal-leaning Economic Policy Institute, told the New York Times.
Route Fifty
June 22, 2020
“All in all, today’s UI [unemployment insurance] data highlight the deep recession we are now in,” Heidi Shierholz, senior economist and director of policy at the Economic Policy Institute, wrote in a Thursday morning blog post.
Newsweek
June 22, 2020
Approximately 28 percent to 47 percent of private-sector workers were subject to non compete agreements in 2017, according to the Economic Policy Institute. This just goes to show just how common non compete agreements really are.
Ladders
June 22, 2020
In their memo on the ad, the GOP campaign also sent articles that stated that the U.S.-Korea trade deal from 2012, supported by the chamber, led to a more than doubling of the U.S. goods trade deficit, according to Reuters, and “more than 95,000 lost U.S. jobs,” according to an analysis from the union-backed Economic Policy Institute in 2016. (The White House said in 2018 that the goods trade deficit grew by 75 percent under the 2012 agreement.) The biggest source of the trade deficit was related to car sales, according to Vox in 2018.
Politifact
June 22, 2020
The additional $600 a week in federal unemployment benefits, included in the CARES Act, is set to end July 31. That means the unemployed will have to rely solely on state weekly benefits averaging $370, according to Goldman Sachs estimates.
“A huge share of jobless people will be forced to exist on much less than what they had before,” says Heidi Shierholz, an economist at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
USA Today
June 22, 2020
More specific proactive actions can add to this, varying by business sector. Richard Rothstein, a distinguished fellow at the Economic Policy Institute, offers an example. Rothstein is the author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, which documents, among other injustices, the ways housing policies and business practices exploited and undermined Black access to housing and property, for generations. In short, the de facto segregation of cities was “created jointly,” he says, by government agencies, banks, and insurance and real-estate firms.
Medium
June 22, 2020