Nevada, Hawaii, and Montana are three states forecasted to lose the most jobs as a share of their labor force, according to an analysis from the Economic Policy Institute.
Business Insider
May 13, 2020
If there are few full time jobs available many will, quite sensibly, cease looking. The search for a job is itself a financially and psychologically costly endeavor. In such cases an unemployment number that does include involuntary part times and discouraged workers may be considerably higher than the headline number. The Economic Policy Institute calculates that if both of these factors were accounted for the current unemployment rate would be 23.7%
Common Dreams
May 13, 2020
RISK TO THE STATES — EPI’s Josh Bivens: “The revenue shortfall facing state and local governments stemming from the collapse in economic activity … could reach nearly $1 trillion by the end of 2021. And even at the end of 2021, recent economic projections indicate that unless more relief and recovery is passed, the unemployment rate could still sit at just under 10%.”
Politico
May 13, 2020
Solis pointed to a March estimate by the Economic Policy Institute that California could lose 600,000 jobs due to the coronavirus.
NBC Los Angeles
May 13, 2020
“Millennials are likely the ones that are going to be most affected by the pandemic as they are the ones who are likely to have younger kids,” said Economic Policy Institute Senior Economist Elise Gould. “There is a lot of uncertainty right now. Not all schools have closed for the year, but if you don’t know, it is hard to know if you are available [to work].”
LinkedIn
May 13, 2020
The piece, laboriously titled “Millions of baby boomers are getting caught in the country’s broken retirement system” is light (and selective) on data (they managed to get hold of a 2016 report by the Economic Policy Institute subtitled “How 401(k)s have failed most American workers,” some datapoints from the National Institute on Retirement Security (for those who have forgotten some of the issues with their database, see Data ‘Minding’” and a couple of quotes from none other than Teresa Ghilarducci). Indeed, the article isn’t really about factual data; rather it’s mostly reliant on the anecdotes of six individuals the author has somehow stumbled upon.
National Association of Plan Advisors
May 13, 2020
According to a survey by the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute, for every 10 people who successfully filed for unemployment insurance benefits over four weeks in March and April, an additional three to four people tried and failed to submit claims.
NBC News
May 13, 2020
“This is so deep and so dramatic, it’s just hitting everywhere,” said Heidi Shierholz, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute. “Nothing is being spared. The pace of this is incredible.”
The Washington Times
May 13, 2020
A 2018 Economic Policy Institute report found that China’s entry into the WTO has caused the U.S. to shed 3.4 million jobs since 2001, with nearly 75 percent of jobs lost in the manufacturing sector.
United States Congressman Peter DeFazio
May 13, 2020
Actualmente hay alrededor de 500,000 extranjeros en Estados Unidos con visa H-1B, de acuerdo con un reporte del Economic Policy Institute.
La Opinion
May 13, 2020