“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
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
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
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
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
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 that would require a more complex calculation by state unemployment insurance agencies — one they might be unwilling or unable to implement. “In a perfect world, I would prefer to give people a percentage of their income,”said Heidi Shierholz, a senior economist at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. “But we might not be set up to do it.” Many state unemployment insurance agencies are still using decades-old computer systems, for example, presenting potential technical challenges if Congress asked them to change the benefits formula. And Daniel Zeitlin, the director of policy at Washington state’s unemployment office, said that while he didn’t think it was impossible, any change would be difficult for a system already under tremendous stress.
FiveThirtyEight
May 15, 2020