This document reveals other payments made by the Steelworkers, which is one of Canada’s most influential unions.
(Last year, a U.S. Department of Labor spokesperson told the Straight that LM-2 forms must be filed in U.S. dollars.)
A U.S.-based think tank, the Economic Policy Institute, received $100,000.
Georgia Straight
May 11, 2020
The April figures also don’t count, as both the Economic Policy Institute and Trumka pointed out, millions more jobless people who couldn’t get through to file claims with state-run jobless agencies as their overburdened computer and phone systems crashed.
People's Weekly World
May 11, 2020
“European governments are choosing to use their unemployment funds to keep workers attached to the firms that they’re working for through what are known as work-sharing, or short-term compensation programs,” said Robert E. Scott, senior economist and director of trade and manufacturing policy research at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington.
“That means that workers keep the benefits that they have associated with those jobs,” he said. “But it also, more importantly, keeps the workers attached to the firm and not unemployed.”
VOA
May 11, 2020
Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, said payroll employment “dropped like a rock” in April.
“I struggle to even put into words how large this drop is,” Gould said in a May 8 report, adding: “Total job losses over the last two months would fill all 30 currently empty Major League Baseball stadiums 16 times over.”
S&P Global
May 11, 2020
Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, noted that women have also been taking a heavy hit in the fast-contracting job market. Though women filled half of the jobs as of February, they’ve represented 55% of job losses during the last two months, Gould said. The pandemic’s financial fallout came quick, and data suggests even before the outbreak, many black and Latino families had budgets with little leeway for the unexpected.
MarketWatch
May 11, 2020
Many Latinos have lost jobs as the coronavirus forced businesses to shutter. Just 16 percent of Latinos were in jobs that allowed them to work from home, compared to 31.4 percent of non-Latinos, according to an Economic Policy Institute study released in March, about the time when states were beginning to restrict larger gatherings of people and close nonessential businesses.
NBC News
May 11, 2020
“There are massive economic consequences to layoffs,” said Heidi Shierholz, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute. “You can have a really long-lasting negative impact on earnings.”
The Washington Post
May 11, 2020
Heidi Shirholz economista del Economic Policy Institute explicaba en la edición del jueves del Washington Post que todas las recesiones “amplían las desigualdades existentes por raza y etnia, y siempre golpean a los trabajadores negros y latinos a con más dureza, pero esta va a ser peor. Va a ser una pesadilla”.
El Diario
May 11, 2020
A separate analysis released Friday by the Economic Policy Institute reached a similar conclusion.
Lexington Herald-Leader
May 11, 2020
“There is so much uncertainty about how things will unfold that an arbitrary end date doesn’t make any sense at all right now,” said Heidi Shierholz, a former chief Labor Department economist now at the liberal Economic Policy Institute in Washington. “Lawmakers must be willing to provide fiscal support until the unemployment rate is at a manageable level.”
The New York Times
May 11, 2020