It’s strange that this is a controversial thing to say. It’s strange that Josh Bivens of the Economic Policy Institute, the largest labor economics organization in America, is giving qualified support to the Fed’s actions, when they quietly eliminated labor protections for the corporate bond purchases and left states and municipalities hanging. After all, this is a fight between labor and capital: the labor of millions of public employees and the capital class rescue that has proceeded without delay.
The American Prospect
June 16, 2020
Researchers noted that a national study by the Economic Policy Institute found about 30 percent of the reduction in the gap between the median hourly wages of men and women since 1979 was due to the decline in men’s inflation-adjusted wages.
Wisconsin Public Radio
June 16, 2020
The political struggle in corona times is particularly fierce in Costa’s field, immigration. Trump’s first decisive measures against the spread of the coronavirus were an entry ban from China and later from Europe. It gradually became more difficult to enter the US from all over the world, for whatever reason. “The whole immigration system has come to a standstill,” said Costa. “The consulates no longer handle visa applications, except for temporary agricultural workers.”
Trouw
June 16, 2020
Featuring interview with Elise Gould.
CNBC
June 16, 2020
Economic Policy Institute’s Valerie Wilson examines steps needed to address economic inequality in the United States. She speaks on “Bloomberg Markets: European Close.”
Bloomberg TV
June 16, 2020
Importantly however, these individuals were in many ways already excluded from the dynamic growth that characterized the months—and years—preceding this latest crisis, magnifying systemic racial, ethnic, gender, and geographic injustice and inequity. The Economic Policy Institute studied wages and inequality over the past two decades and found constant and—and in some cases worsening—wage gaps by gender and race. The black–white gap was significantly larger in 2019 (14.9%) than it was in 2000 (10.2%).
Atlantic Council
June 12, 2020
Further, many Americans who have returned to work face reduced hours and pay cuts—as well as uncertainty about how long their employment will last. “People are coming back to work in jobs that are very different than they were three months ago,” Robert Scott, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, told the Washington Post‘s Tony Romm and Jacob Bogage. “They’re very risky and there’s a lot of uncertainty about what’s to come,” Scott said.
Advisory Board
June 12, 2020
“Older workers are less likely to have the kinds of jobs that allow telework in the first place,” says Monique Morrisey, an economist with the Economic Policy Institute, another D.C.think tank. “And they’re very steady and reliable; they tend to take less leave then younger workers.” For these reasons, she thinks employers should focus on bolstering workplace safety. She echoes Johnson’s call for stronger unemployment benefits for seniors until the virus plays itself out.
MarketWatch
June 12, 2020
But the Bipartisan Policy Center’s work revealed that African Americans were more likely to lose employment as a result of the crisis — in fact, according to the Economic Policy Institute, black women suffered the largest job losses of any group. And sadly, there is much evidence to show that the traditional American antipathy toward generous social welfare benefits is rooted not in our can-do, self-help beliefs, but in our attitudes toward race.
Washington Post
June 12, 2020