Economist Valerie Wilson, director of the Program on Race, Ethnicity and Economy (PREE) at the Economic Policy Institute, said, “The pandemic really does shine a light on a number of economic disparities along racial lines.”
CBS This Morning
June 23, 2020
Connecticut has the third highest degree of economic inequality in the country according to the Economic Policy Institute, a fact which is directly reflected in the funding for its public schools. This inequality has always presented challenges for students, yet it has been further exacerbated by the transition to online learning.
Inklings News
June 23, 2020
The pandemic is having a disproportionately high negative impact on Black people, as has been widely reported, with the unemployment rate for Black women hitting 16.9 percent in April, higher than that for white women, Black men and (of course) white men, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Boss Betty
June 23, 2020
An analysis from the Economic Policy Institute found that black workers’ earnings amounted to only 87.1 percent of white workers’ earnings in the private sector, when controlling for age, education and other factors. By contrast, in the public sector, black workers earned 97.8 percent as much as their white counterparts.
Inside Sources
June 23, 2020
Critics of H-1B say the program underpays foreign workers compared to their American counterparts, according to nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank the Economic Policy Institute.
Fox Business
June 23, 2020
Jacobs aired a TV ad late in the special-election campaign that accused McMurray of “supporting trade agreements costing us thousands of jobs.” The ad cited a May 2016 blog post from the Economic Policy Institute that was critical of a 2012 U.S.-South Korea free-trade agreement.
Bloomberg Government
June 23, 2020
A report by the Economic Policy Institute based on federal labor data shows that a disproportionately high share of Black and Hispanic workers can’t telecommute for their jobs, putting them at higher risk of contracting the coronavirus, or being laid off as businesses continue to close.
Business Insider
June 23, 2020
Economist Valerie Wilson, director of the Program on Race, Ethnicity and Economy (PREE) at the Economic Policy Institute, said, “The pandemic really does shine a light on a number of economic disparities along racial lines.”
CBS This Morning
June 23, 2020
There’s also the racial wage gap: the Economic Policy Institute says that in 2017, Black men made about 70 cents for every $1 their White counterpart made. The gap is especially large when it comes to Black women, who make 62 cents for every $1 a White man makes, according to the National Women’s Law Center.
The Skimm
June 22, 2020
With the labor market in a state of unprecedented turmoil, the data is coming in so quickly that it can be difficult to see the clear trendlines. Heidi Shierholz of the Economic Policy Institute attempted to straighten out some of the crooked lines in a blog post Thursday.
The Fiscal Times
June 22, 2020