“The Economic Policy Institute earlier this week estimated that the current claims level probably undercounts by as much as 12 million those who are eligible for benefits but not getting them due to the inability to file or other roadblocks,” CNBC reported last month.
The Daily Wire
May 15, 2020
That’s because some of the hardest hit sectors of the economy are dominated by women, and particularly Latinas. Hospitality, retail and health care have all seen big job losses that have left Latinas vulnerable, says Elise Gould with the Economic Policy Institute.
“The unemployment rate for Hispanic women sits at 20.2%,” Gould said. “That’s 1 in 5 Hispanic women are now unemployed.”
Marketplace
May 15, 2020
Heidi Shierholz at the Economic Policy Institute notes: “Many of the jobs that have been lost in this recession are low-wage service, retail sales, and office jobs. Because of things like occupational segregation, discrimination, and other labor market disparities, women and black and Hispanic workers are more concentrated in these jobs and as a result are facing greater job loss.”
Daily Kos
May 15, 2020
With more than 15 million Americans out of work, the nation’s overall unemployment could hit nearly 16 percent by July, according to estimates released by the Economic Policy Institute. That rate would be greater than any other jobless figures recorded since the 1930s.
The Center Square
May 15, 2020
With more than 15 million Americans out of work, the nation’s overall unemployment could hit nearly 16 percent by July, according to estimates released by the Economic Policy Institute. That rate would be greater than any other jobless figures recorded since the 1930s.
The Center Square
May 15, 2020
More than 36 million people have reportedly filed for unemployment in the last two months. A survey from the Economic Policy Institute last month estimated that figure is lower than the true number of Americans out of work: Millions more people could have filed if unemployment processes were easier.
CNET
May 15, 2020
This reinforces a message we covered in NPQ last week, when we observed, citing Economic Policy Institute research, that “there is a strong class dimension to the unemployment wave” on top of its highly inequitable of gender and racial impacts. Citing federal unemployment data, we further noted, “Of the 19.5 million jobs lost in the private sector last month, fully 18.1 million of them were classified as production and non-supervisory workers. Even amidst a massive surge of unemployment, unemployment among managers is presently 6.2 percent (with professional workers at 8.8 percent and all other job categories 12.7 percent or higher).”
Nonprofit Quarterly
May 15, 2020
“If an employer was paying hazard pay and stopped providing it, there’s very little an employee could do,” Heidi Shierholz, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, recently told Marketplace’s Kristin Schwab.
Marketplace
May 15, 2020