According to research from the Economic Policy Institute released on April 28th, for every 10 people who said they successfully filed for unemployment benefits during the previous four weeks, three to four additional people tried to apply but could not get through the system to make a claim.
EPI researchers also found that two additional people did not try to apply because it was too difficult to do so.
“About half of potential UI applicants are actually receiving benefits,” reads EPI’s report.
NBC News
May 18, 2020
Many times a job loss comes with the loss of employer healthcare coverage. According to the Commonwealth Fund, about half of the U.S. population is covered by employer health insurance plans. In fact since the devastating impact of Covid-19 began, the Economic Policy Institute expects an estimated 12.7 million workers to no longer have employer-provided health insurance.
MedCity News
May 18, 2020
But who’s going to pay for these increased expenses? American parents with children under the age of five are already forking over a total of $42 billion for early child care and education, such as preschool programs, according to progressive think tank Economic Policy Institute.
NBC News
May 18, 2020
“Every job should be a safe job, no one should be risking their lives, and one of the biggest problems with trying to incentivize people to work in unsafe conditions is that it is inevitably condescending,” said Celine McNicholas, director of government affairs and labor counsel at the Economic Policy Institute.
VOX
May 18, 2020
Employees working in “must-show” fields, a phrase used in a March 2020 report by Time Magazine, largely are not able to work from home in the pandemic. These workers are also less likely to have access to benefits including paid sick leave, Time noted. There are also demographic disparities, according to a report from the progressive think tank Economic Policy Institute, which found that just 16% of Hispanic or Latino workers in the U.S. were able to work from home, compared to 30% of white workers and 37% of Asian workers.
HR Dive
May 18, 2020
El inform dela Oficina de Estadísticas Laborales, conocido como JOLTS, apunta que la demanda de trabajadores se ha contraído a un ritmo mensual récord en marzo (813,000 ofertas de empleo retiradas). Las contrataciones también han caído y lo único que sube, como se ha visto en las cifras de desempleo es la destrucción de puestos de trabajo. En el Economic Policy Institute califican a estos datos de “catastróficos”.
La Opinion
May 18, 2020
Heidi Shierholz, policy director at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, noted that 24 million American have filed new claims for unemployment benefits since the end of March, tweeting that Friday’s data “only shows the beginning of the devastation.”
“The human suffering and lost productive potential represented by these numbers is immeasurable,” she continued.
The Hill
May 18, 2020
Elise Gould, senior economist at the nonprofit think tank Economic Policy Institute, noted for comparison that in April 2009, the worst month of the previous economic collapse, layoffs totaled 2.7 million.
“Layoffs in March were more than four times larger than the worst month in the Great Recession,” she said.
Courthouse News Service
May 18, 2020
D.C.’s Economic Policy Institute reported that one in six workers, or about 36.5 million Americans, have filed for Unemployment Insurance since the COVID-19 pandemic began. From March 28 to April 28, “for every 10 people who said they successfully filed for unemployment benefits, three to four additional people tried to apply but could not get through the system to make a claim.”
The Cheyenne Post
May 18, 2020
But who’s going to pay for these increased expenses? American parents with children under the age of five are already forking over a total of $42 billion for early child care and education, such as preschool programs, according to progressive think tank Economic Policy Institute.
NBC News
May 18, 2020