A majority of domestic workers are women of color and are three times as likely to live in poverty than other workers, according to the Economic Policy Institute, an independent economic research organization.
Capital News Service
March 8, 2021
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Medicaid has done “the heavy lifting” in providing coverage for people who lost their job and employer-sponsored health insurance, according to an analysis from the Economic Policy Institute.
VOX
March 8, 2021
U.S. employers added more jobs than forecast in February and the unemployment rate declined, suggesting the labor market is clawing its way forward again following several disappointing months. Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, speaks with Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde, Romaine Bostick and Joe Weisenthal on “What’d You Miss?” about the U.S. jobs report.
Bloomberg TV
March 8, 2021
One Asian American woman recommended by Sanders was Thea Lee, the president of the Economic Policy Institute, who testified before his committee last month on wages, according to the person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to disclose private discussions. The lack of consultation with Sanders on Tanden was seen as a major misstep by the White House, considering his top role on the committee that would process the OMB job and Tanden’s history tangling with Sanders’s supporters in his 2016 presidential bid.
Washington Post
March 8, 2021
L’expansion de Medicaid réduit également la mortalité des patients: un document de travail publié en janvier a conclu que l’expansion de Medicaid avait entraîné 19 200 décès de moins au cours de ses quatre premières années. Une autre étude a révélé que l’expansion de Medicaid avait conduit à un meilleur accès aux soins médicaux, à une meilleure gestion de la maladie et à un meilleur bien-être financier des patients. Au cours de la pandémie de Covid-19, Medicaid a fait «le gros du travail» en fournissant une couverture aux personnes qui ont perdu leur emploi et une assurance maladie parrainée par l’employeur, selon une analyse de l’Economic Policy Institute.
France 24
March 8, 2021
Delivering a minimum wage increase before the midterm elections would give bragging rights to Democratic senatorial candidates in low minimum wage states. In North Carolina, 33% of workers would experience an increase in wages. Once the raise was fully implemented, the average annual benefit to a North Carolina worker who works year round would be $4,065, according to Capital & Main’s analysis of data released by the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute in a recent study. Workers in other states would reap similar benefits.
Capital and Main
March 8, 2021
The Economic Policy Institute reported that the minimum wage, if adjusted for inflation, should have already exceeded $15.
“Yet since the late 1960s, lawmakers have let the value of the minimum wage erode, allowing inflation to gradually reduce the buying power of a minimum wage income,” according to a 2019 report.
The Independent
March 8, 2021
“Every Democrat who voted against this $15 minimum wage amendment should face a primary challenger and be defeated,” said Lisa McCormick, who earned nearly 40 percent of the Democratic primary votes in her 2018 race for US Senate.
“Raising the minimum wage would amount to a significant reduction in the deficit, according to studies done by the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics and the Economic Policy Institute,” said McCormick. “Congress should end the crisis of starvation wages in America by raise the pay of America’s poorest workers to a living wage of at least $15 an hour.”
NJ Today
March 8, 2021
Durbin and Grassley cited a May 4, 2020 analysis by the Economic Policy Institute, saying “a majority of H-1B employers use the visa program to pay migrant workers below-market wages, and half of the top 30 H-1B employers use an outsourcing business model.”
“This is simply unacceptable and does not reflect how Congress intended the H-1B program to work.”
The American Bazaar
March 8, 2021
Caroline Hyde, Romaine Bostick & Joe Weisenthal bring the news and analysis you may have missed after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today’s show tackles dip buyers fuel the stock rebound and the jobs report Guests Today: Elise Gould of the Economic Policy Institute, Michael Purves of Tallbacken Capital Advisors. (Source: Bloomberg)
Bloomberg TV
March 8, 2021
David Cooper, a senior economic analyst at the Economic Policy Institute, a worker-focused policy group, said the momentum for an increase will continue.
“I think we’re going to continue to keep hearing about this, even if it’s not at the federal level,” he said.
Bloomberg Law
March 8, 2021
Claire Kovach, senior research analyst at Keystone Research Center and co-author of the report, said data from the Economic Policy Institute showed the increase would put the state on a path to creating a high-wage, high-productivity economy that helps all working Pennsylvanians.
Keystone State News Connection
March 8, 2021
According to the Economic Policy Institute, Black folks have been leaded the unemployment rates since the start of the pandemic. They noted that “in the first quarter of 2020, African American workers had the highest unemployment rate nationally, at 6.3%, following by Hispanic workers (at 4.8%), white workers (at 3.1%), and Asian workers (at 2.9%).” The states with the highest unemployment rates in 2020 were District of Columbia at 11.3%, followed by Pennsylvania at 10.2%, Louisiana at 10.0%, and Mississippi at 9.1%.
MadameNoire
March 8, 2021
Without a meaningful union presence in American life, our gap between the rich and everyone else has reached levels unimaginable a half-century ago. CEO pay at major corporations, the Economic Policy Institute points out, has soared a stunning 1,167 percent since 1978. Over that same four decades, typical worker compensation has inched up a microscopic 13.7 percent, on average just a fraction of 1 percent per year.
Inequality.org
March 8, 2021
An August report from left-leaning think tank Economic Policy Institute (EPI) highlighted the benefits that unions could bring to workers during the pandemic. For instance, they found that 94% of workers that are covered by a union contract have access to “employer-sponsored health benefits;” that’s the case for only 68% of nonunion workers.
“Meghan Markle illustrated the importance of unions and the crucial support they provide workers. When working people join a union, they have a voice on the job and the ability to collectively bargain for wages, benefits, and working conditions,” EPI policy associate Margaret Poydock said in a statement. “When unions are strong, they set wage standards for entire industries and occupations, they make wages more equal within occupations, and they help close racial and gender wage gaps.”
Business Insider
March 8, 2021
According to congressional testimony from the Economic Policy Institute last month, “Due to the impacts of structural racism and sexism, women and Black and Hispanic men are concentrated in low-wage jobs” and would greatly benefit from a higher minimum wage.
The Washington Informer
March 8, 2021
Kayla Blado will join the NLRB as press secretary later this month. She currently handles press for the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, and serves as president of the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union.
Bloomberg Law
March 8, 2021
According to the Economic Policy Institute, over thirty percent of Black workers would get a raise if the federal minimum wage increases. LGBT families of color would directly benefit because many Black, Latinx, Asian, and Indigenous queer, trans, and gender-nonconforming rank and file workers are employed in low wage service and food sector jobs.
LA Progressive
March 8, 2021
Losing our manufacturing prowess means sacrificing a vital part of America’s economic foundation, past, present and future: As a 2015 report from the Economic Policy Institute declared, “Manufacturing is by far the most important sector of the U.S. economy in terms of total output and employment.”
Forbes
March 8, 2021
According to a range of research compiled by the Economic Policy Institute, increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 would deliver pay increases for nearly 32 million workers, 21 percent of the entire U.S. workforce.
Truthout
March 8, 2021
According to Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, the impact of the pandemic has revealed that African-American women, Latinas, as well as Asian women are in the greatest economic lag , since, for the most part, they have jobs in the service industry.
La Opinion
March 8, 2021
By the early 1970s, the union-avoidance industry had become a big business. Lawyers and consultants have since spent decades finding even more weaknesses in NLRB law and procedures, effectively thwarting the desires of workers to unionize. A 2019 report from the Economic Policy Institute estimated that employers spend $340 million a year on union-avoidance consultants. In 2018, 48 percent of nonunion workers said they would join a union if they could; yet just 10.8 percent of workers belong to a union today. Between those two numbers is the union-avoidance industry doing the bidding of the bosses.
Jacobin
March 8, 2021
Employers steal billions of dollars from American workers’ paychecks every year, according to a 2017 study by the Economic Policy Institute, a non-profit think tank.
Researchers looked at 10 states, including Illinois, and found “2.4 million workers lose $8 billion annually from being paid at an effective hourly rate lower than the states’ minimum wage,” the institute reported. “These findings suggest that employers across the country are pocketing over $15 billion each year that is owed to their employees.”
Chicago Sun Times
March 8, 2021
“Low wages hurt all workers and are particularly harmful to Black workers and other workers of color, especially women of color who make up a disproportionate share of workers who are severely underpaid,” reports an Economic Policy Institute fact sheet on the minimum wage. “This is the result of structural racism and sexism, with an economic system rooted in chattel slavery in which workers of color — and especially women of color — have been and continue to be shunted into the most underpaid jobs.”
A bipartisan coalition in the U.S. Senate just voted to keep it that way.
Salon
March 8, 2021
The Raise the Wage Act would raise wages for nearly 32 million workers — the majority of whom are women (59 percent, or nearly 19 million) — according to analyses by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) and the National Employment Law Project (NELP). Findings in the reports paint a clear and compelling picture: nearly one-third (31 percent) of African Americans and one-quarter of Latinos would get a raise if the federal minimum wage were increased to $15; and nearly 23 percent of all workers who would see a raise are Black or Latina women. According to the EPI report, African Americans and Latinos are paid 10-15 percent less than white workers with the same characteristics, concluding that the Raise the Wage Act would deliver the largest benefits to Black and Latino workers at roughly $3,500 annually for a year-round worker.
The Hill
March 8, 2021
Many economists have also roundly rejected the idea that the extra unemployment checks discourage people from finding work. Josh Bivens, a research director at the progressive Economic Policy Institute, wrote in a blog last year that, “In normal times, economists and policymakers have focused a lot of attention (almost surely too much) on the incentive effects of [unemployment insurance] benefits.” But studies have found that, “The negative economic impacts of these incentive effects have always been exaggerated,” says Bivens, and that they’re negligible, especially under the exigent circumstances caused by the pandemic.
Truthout
March 8, 2021
Black workers make up about 1 in 6 of all front-line industry workers and, according to the Economic Policy Institute, represent higher employment in retail jobs and those such as public transit, warehouses and child care. Hispanic workers also make up a large sector of essential jobs.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
March 8, 2021
Part of the reason for the shortage has to do with pay and working conditions. On average, teachers make roughly 20% less than other college graduates, according to research from the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank that focuses on worker issues.
Savannah Morning News
March 8, 2021
The Biden proposal will make federal resources available to address both. It has the potential to create millions of new jobs in this country, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Jobs building the material that will make up our infrastructure are the kind that pay a premium wage to workers with less than a four-year degree. They’re precisely the kind the market needs more of right now.
Bay to Bay News
March 8, 2021
Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, calculated that employers would need to add an additional 2.4 million jobs to make up for those that would have been gained if COVID-19 had not derailed the economy.
Axios
March 8, 2021