Daniel Costa, who directs immigration law and policy research for the Economic Policy Institute, said he’s optimistic that farmworkers who become sick with COVID-19 will be able to benefit from paid sick leave, even if they are undocumented.
“I don’t think that employers want sick workers who have coronavirus or might have it showing up to the fields and getting other workers sick,” said Costa, who is based in the Central Valley city of Turlock. “That could shut down their operations. I think there’s a real incentive there.”
Costa said that as long as employees are on the books, regardless of their immigration status, they should qualify for paid sick days.
KQED
May 12, 2020
Elise Gould, senior economist at the nonprofit think tank Economic Policy Institute, said payroll employment “dropped like a rock in April.”
“I struggle to even put into words how large this drop is,” she said. “Total job losses over the last two months would fill all 30 currently empty Major League Baseball stadiums 16 times over.”
“It’s as if all the jobs in all of the states beginning with the letter ‘M’ simply disappeared in the last month,” Gould said. “That’s all the jobs in Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, and Montana combined.”
Courthouse News Service
May 12, 2020
o You can say a whole lot about this jobs report: a “portrait of devastation,” a “waking nightmare,” an “epidemic of hardship and hunger.” What you haven’t quite heard it described as, despite it being true: a process Congress wanted to happen.
The American Prospect
May 12, 2020
This is a larger estimate than a recent study conducted by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) that states that only 16.2 percent of Hispanic workers can work remotely.
The Hill
May 12, 2020
Both the Economic Policy Institute out of Northern Arizona University and the Greater Flagstaff Chamber of Commerce released surveys of businesses in Flagstaff last week and they paint a mixed picture of the local economy.
Arizona Daily Sun
May 12, 2020
According to a survey by the 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 make claims.
NBC News
May 12, 2020
A look at China’s entry into WTO: AAF trade policy director Jacqueline Varas estimated that U.S. job losses associated with the “shock” of China’s entry into the World Trade Organization likely ended in 2010, “as global trade flows fully adjusted.” It concluded that every 1 percentage point increase in imports over that six-year period led to a 0.07 percent increase in jobs.
That contrasts with findings of the Economic Policy Institute, which calculated in 2018 that China’s entry into the WTO had cost 3.4 million U.S. jobs since 2001.
Politico
May 12, 2020
Last month, the Economic Policy Institute estimated that 12.7 million people had already lost their employer-based health insurance.
Salon
May 12, 2020
For example, Max B. Sawicky, a former economist at the Economic Policy Institute, said at a 2013 forum on UBI proposals that “like good fiction, the way to read the UBI is not as a real proposal, but as a message about … our existing system. But the implicit critique of the existing system underlying the UBI is not well founded.”
Business News Daily
May 12, 2020
The sheer size of the crisis: “The number of workers who swiftly lost work in April is beyond belief”, said Nick Bunker of Indeed Hiring Lab. A recent finding by the Economic Policy Institute found that for every for every 10 people who successfully applied for unemployment, another three to four people gave up because they could not get through their state’s system to make a claim.
Click Lancashire Independent News
May 12, 2020