“We always see a drop in labor force participation during recessions. It’s been a lot worse in this one,” said Heidi Shierholz, senior economist and policy director with the Economic Policy Institute.
Politico
March 5, 2021
Wyoming and other states facing steep budget shortfalls could bounce back as early as next year if the federal government invests big in COVID recovery, according to new analysis by the Economic Policy Institute.
Utah Public Radio
March 5, 2021
The United States Postal Service has increasingly struggled to outcompete large corporations like FedEx that use the same networks and markets, the Economic Policy Institute wrote in a report. This is partly because the USPS is limited in entering new markets and pays its workers with middle-class wages and provides benefits, unlike private competitors like FedEx that cut costs by relying on independent, contract workers, The Washington Post reported. Yet the drastically different de-carbonization goals between USPS and FedEx highlight the necessary role private companies can play in pioneering efforts towards a clean energy future.
EcoWatch
March 5, 2021
As the Economic Policy Institute points out: “Lows in the employment-to-population ratio correspond with economic downturns.” Put simply, the pandemic and resulting economic harm drove people out of the workforce.
24/7 Wall St.
March 5, 2021
“It’s hard to say it will be very appealing for young [students] to go into a profession that just at the beginning underpays you by about 20 percent relative to other professions,” says Emma García, an education economist at the Economic Policy Institute. “That is a pretty significant cut in your paycheck, and that is a penalty that has been growing for the last couple of decades.”
EdSurge
March 5, 2021
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.
WTKR
March 5, 2021
Romney and Cotton’s plan would only raise wages for around 3 percent of American workers, compared to 21.2 percent of workers under the Democratic proposal, according to an analysis published by the Economic Policy Institute.
Newsweek
March 5, 2021
Según el Economic Policy Institute, de los más de 20 millones de desempleados registrados en abril del 2020, el 20.2% eran latinas. Y eso se debe, en gran parte, a que trabajan en las industrias más afectadas por los cierres a causa de la COVID-19: hospitalidad y esparcimiento (hoteles, restaurantes, entretenimiento y turismo), servicios (industria de limpieza, alimentos, atención médica y seguridad), comercio y educación, entre otros. Aunque hubo una eventual y leve recuperación en los meses subsiguientes, las mujeres hispanas aún constituían el 9.2% de los desempleados en enero del 2021.
AARP
March 5, 2021
This system gives equal chance to each registration regardless of wage or occupation. The biggest users of the H-1B program have the capacity, experience, and demand to submit thousands of petitions annually. A small number of companies flood the lottery with H-1B registrations, increasing their chances of success at the expense of small businesses and startups that register for one or two specialized foreign workers. Data for the 2019 fiscal year shows that the top 30 firms, half of which are identified by the Economic Policy Institute as having an outsourcing business model, accounted for nearly 20 percent of approved new petitions in FY 2019.
Center for Strategic and International Studies
March 5, 2021
Brown cited this organization to push the claim that canceling student debt would just cause colleges to increase tuition even more, completely ignoring the role a lack of government funding plays in tuition increases. As CNBC reported, a comprehensive report on tuition increases from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities stated that “limited state funding has contributed to rising college costs.” Michael Mitchell, the lead author of the report, told CNBC that “nearly every state has shifted the responsibility of funding higher education from the state to students over the last 25 years.” Economic Policy Institute’s Josh Bivens also told CNBC: “Policymakers cut back funding for higher education, and these cutbacks were made up with huge increases in tuition costs, forcing people to take on more debt.” Bivens said canceling student debt is “recompense for a string of bad policy failures.”
Media Matters
March 5, 2021
By the early 1970s, the union avoidance industry had become 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 non-union 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.
Labor Notes
March 5, 2021
According to the Economic Policy Institute, these credits had “broad partisan support.”
Marketplace
March 5, 2021
There has been enough evidence to suggest that combining cheques along with targeted programmes have been extremely effective. For example, the Urban Institute and the Economic Policy Institute found that combining payments along with expanded unemployment benefits in the summer of 2020 helped nearly 12 million people from falling into poverty in the US.
Pharmaceutical Technology
March 5, 2021
According to a May 4, 2020 analysis by the Economic Policy Institute, a majority of H-1B employers use the visa programme to pay migrant workers below-market wages, and half of the top 30 H-1B employers use an outsourcing business model, they said.
Yahoo
March 5, 2021
The Center for Economic and Policy Research notes that the wage gap between white and Black workers is narrower among postal workers than among private sector employees. The Economic Policy Institute has found that Black workers’ share of USPS jobs is significantly higher than their share of all public sector jobs.
Truthout
March 5, 2021
The Daily Show
March 5, 2021
“It’s hard to say it will be very appealing for young [students] to go into a profession that just at the beginning underpays you by about 20 percent relative to other professions,” says Emma García, an education economist at the Economic Policy Institute. “That is a pretty significant cut in your paycheck, and that is a penalty that has been growing for the last couple of decades.”
EdSurge
March 5, 2021
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.
WTKR
March 5, 2021
Romney and Cotton’s plan would only raise wages for around 3 percent of American workers, compared to 21.2 percent of workers under the Democratic proposal, according to an analysis published by the Economic Policy Institute.
Newsweek
March 5, 2021
Según el Economic Policy Institute, de los más de 20 millones de desempleados registrados en abril del 2020, el 20.2% eran latinas. Y eso se debe, en gran parte, a que trabajan en las industrias más afectadas por los cierres a causa de la COVID-19: hospitalidad y esparcimiento (hoteles, restaurantes, entretenimiento y turismo), servicios (industria de limpieza, alimentos, atención médica y seguridad), comercio y educación, entre otros. Aunque hubo una eventual y leve recuperación en los meses subsiguientes, las mujeres hispanas aún constituían el 9.2% de los desempleados en enero del 2021.
AARP
March 5, 2021
This system gives equal chance to each registration regardless of wage or occupation. The biggest users of the H-1B program have the capacity, experience, and demand to submit thousands of petitions annually. A small number of companies flood the lottery with H-1B registrations, increasing their chances of success at the expense of small businesses and startups that register for one or two specialized foreign workers. Data for the 2019 fiscal year shows that the top 30 firms, half of which are identified by the Economic Policy Institute as having an outsourcing business model, accounted for nearly 20 percent of approved new petitions in FY 2019.
Center for Strategic and International Studies
March 5, 2021
Brown cited this organization to push the claim that canceling student debt would just cause colleges to increase tuition even more, completely ignoring the role a lack of government funding plays in tuition increases. As CNBC reported, a comprehensive report on tuition increases from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities stated that “limited state funding has contributed to rising college costs.” Michael Mitchell, the lead author of the report, told CNBC that “nearly every state has shifted the responsibility of funding higher education from the state to students over the last 25 years.” Economic Policy Institute’s Josh Bivens also told CNBC: “Policymakers cut back funding for higher education, and these cutbacks were made up with huge increases in tuition costs, forcing people to take on more debt.” Bivens said canceling student debt is “recompense for a string of bad policy failures.”
Media Matters
March 5, 2021
By the early 1970s, the union avoidance industry had become 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 non-union 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.
Labor Notes
March 5, 2021
According to the Economic Policy Institute, these credits had “broad partisan support.”
Marketplace
March 5, 2021
There has been enough evidence to suggest that combining cheques along with targeted programmes have been extremely effective. For example, the Urban Institute and the Economic Policy Institute found that combining payments along with expanded unemployment benefits in the summer of 2020 helped nearly 12 million people from falling into poverty in the US.
Pharmaceutical Technology
March 5, 2021
According to a May 4, 2020 analysis by the Economic Policy Institute, a majority of H-1B employers use the visa programme to pay migrant workers below-market wages, and half of the top 30 H-1B employers use an outsourcing business model, they said.
Yahoo
March 5, 2021
The Center for Economic and Policy Research notes that the wage gap between white and Black workers is narrower among postal workers than among private sector employees. The Economic Policy Institute has found that Black workers’ share of USPS jobs is significantly higher than their share of all public sector jobs.
Truthout
March 5, 2021