It is time to overhaul how we structure hospital insurance payments. Our current reimbursement model only serves to illustrate the economic fragility of a system that cannot withstand a major public health crisis. Fifty-five percent of American receive health insurance through the workplace. The Economic Policy Institute estimates that 16.2 million workers could have lost their employer-based health insurance. With further expected job losses the virus could cost 47 million jobs.
The Hastings Center
May 29, 2020
The multiple downsides of OPT have been documented. The Economic Policy Institute noted in 2015, it not only poses risks to American workers, but “will further reduce employment opportunities for U.S. graduates in STEM fields.”
Immigration Reform
May 29, 2020
As bad as the national figures are, the situation in individual states is even worse. An interactive map on the Economic Policy Institute’s website shows more than one-third of workers in Georgia (39%), Kentucky (38%), and Hawaii (35%) have filed for jobless benefits. Just behind are Washington (31%), Louisiana, Nevada and Rhode Island (30% each), Michigan (29%), and Pennsylvania (28%).
People's Weekly World
May 29, 2020
Alongside these job losses, the Economic Policy Institute calculates at least 16.2 million people lost employer-provided health insurance along with their jobs. Additionally, the unprecedented length of joblessness throws a wrench in momentum made by workers and their unions for better wages.
Courthouse News Service
May 29, 2020
While white Americans make up the majority of essential workers nationally, people of color are heavily overrepresented, according to data from the Economic Policy Institute.
Overall, people of color –blacks, Latinos, Asian Americans and others who identify as non-white — make up 43% of all essential workers in the nation during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an analysis of data released last week by the Economic Policy Institute.
ABC News
May 29, 2020
“That’s a high number, and that’s good,” said the Economic Policy Institute’s Heidi Shierholz, former chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor, of the workers’ optimism about returning to their jobs. “But I think we absolutely have to think of that as an upper-bound on how many will be called back.”
“And what we don’t know is how much lower than that … will it ultimately be. The concern is that it’s going to be a lot lower.”
Politico
May 29, 2020
“Job losses are more likely to be in sectors in which women are more prevalent, but even in male-dominated sectors, it appears women are losing their jobs disproportionately more,” said Elise Gould of the Economic Policy Institute.
CBS News
May 29, 2020
Other advocacy groups have also denounced some federal responses to the economic downturn. The Economic Policy Institute, for instance, noted the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security, or CARES, Act passed into law March 27 included $135 billion in tax cuts for millionaires and major corporations.
The Statehouse File
May 29, 2020
Kentucky had the highest number of claims as a percentage of its labor force in reports earlier this month by Fitch and the Economic Policy Institute.
Lexington Herald-Leader
May 29, 2020
The Economic Policy Institute Found That Since China Entered The World Trade Organization There Has Been Dramatic And Negative Effects On U.S. Workers. ‘Since China entered the World Trade Organization in 2001, the massive growth of trade between China and the United States has had a dramatic and negative effect on U.S. workers and the domestic economy.’ ( The Economic Policy Institute , 12/11/14)
Public
May 29, 2020