People of color make up a disproportionate number of essential workers. According to the Economic Policy Institute, there are 55.2 million essential workers in the US. Half of those in food and agriculture, and 53% in industrial, commercial, residential facilities and services, are people of color.
Business Insider
June 22, 2020
Richard Rothstein, a distinguished fellow of the Economic Policy Institute, writes frequently on achievement gaps. He asserts that the COVID-19 pandemic will exacerbate existing achievement gaps between middle and low-income children. The gaps that already exist will widen – again, black and brown children – will figure prominently in these statistics.
Fort Worth Business Press
June 22, 2020
But, it is expensive to be here. Prohibitively. The Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think-tank, estimates that a two-parent, two-children household needs an average combined income of more than $8,500 a month to live in Napa Valley.
Al Jazeera
June 22, 2020
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
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
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