Health care insurance is another example. Many people without insurance during COVID-19 forgo hospitalization due to the fear of insurmountable costs. The Economic Policy Institute estimates that 12.7 million workers have likely lost employer-provided health insurance since the coronavirus shock began. Union members are far less likely to have this concern.
The Detroit News
June 24, 2020
The Economic Policy Institute reported in 2019 that white families have a median household wealth 12 times higher than that of Black families. This discrepancy is the result of centuries of discriminatory practices, such as redlining, that have prevented Black families from accumulating wealth.
Daily Trojan
June 24, 2020
As of 2019, enduring wage gaps based on gender left women making 85 cents to a dollar made by men, according to a report in February by the Economic Policy Institute, a non-partisan think tank that studies the labor conditions of low- and middle-income workers. The ratio, of course, varies further based on race. The median wages of Black workers were about 76 percent those of the wages of white workers, according to the same report.
Women's Wear Daily
June 24, 2020
Valerie Rawlston Wilson, director of the Program on Race, Ethnicity and the Economy at the Economic Policy Institute, said schools need standards in place for teachers, staff and student safety.
At the federal level, the Trump administration has issued guidance for workers and employers in schools and other sectors, outlining standard precautions. But the guidance is largely voluntary, and so far the Trump administration has resisted calls for new regulations.
“I don’t know that parents will feel very confident in sending their students back to school if they don’t have consistent enforceable standards,” Wilson said.
NC Policy Watch
June 24, 2020
The Economic Policy Institute estimates that employers illegally deprive workers of more than $50 billion in wages each year by underpaying them or requiring unpaid work; violators are rarely punished.
The New York Times
June 24, 2020
The figure below from an Economic Policy Institute study, shows the black-white wage gap for workers in different earning percentiles, by education level, and regression-adjusted (to control for age, gender, education and regional differences). As we can see, the wage gap has grown over time regardless of measure.
Monthly Review
June 24, 2020
FFCRA is not provided by states but rather through the employers’ payrolls. Therefore, farm workers — regardless of immigration or visa status — can take advantage of this program, said Daniel Costa, director of Immigration Law and Policy Research at the Economic Policy Institute.
Currently, only 36 percent of farmworkers work in operations with 50-500 employees. The Economic Policy Institute estimates 96 percent of farms employ fewer than 50 people.
Politico Pro
June 23, 2020
As corporations and municipalities struggle to translate anger over discrimination and support for the Black Lives Matter movement into actual change, it’s crucial that they identify and commit to concrete actions. “It’s important that individual employers have a reckoning as it relates to pay and equality by race, ethnicity and gender, but it’s going to require broader and more systemic changes to really bring it down,” Valerie Wilson, director of the Economic Policy Institute’s Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy, told CNBC recently.
Forbes
June 23, 2020
The Reopen and Rebuild America’s Schools Act would:
- Invest $100 billion in grants and $30 billion in bond authority targeted at high-poverty schools with facilities that pose health and safety risks to students and staff;
- Create more 2 million jobs based on an Economic Policy Institute analysis that each $1 billion spent on construction creates 17,785 jobs
U.S. House Committee on Education & Labor
June 23, 2020
Hacker currently serves on the boards of The Century Foundation, Economic Policy Institute, and The American Prospect.
Yale News
June 23, 2020