Patton is not alone. According to the Economic Policy Institute, nearly 13 million workers nationwide have likely lost employer-provided health insurance since the pandemic began. The group says 195,000 Tennesseans have likely lost their insurance.
WSMV News 4
May 7, 2020
My friends are not alone. An Economic Policy Institute study finds that for every 10 people who have successfully applied for unemployment benefits during this crisis, another three or four couldn’t get through the overloaded systems, and two more didn’t even apply because the systems are so hard to navigate. Indeed, in some states the system may be difficult by design, as The New York Times reports.
Tax Policy Center
May 7, 2020
But that clearly hasn’t happened. While the Senate delayed its return until the first week of May, the program that was supposed to act as a safety net in the meantime was failing the millions of desperate Americans who—almost two months out from the beginning of the pandemic—are still not getting any relief. According to a Pew Research Center report, only 29 percent of unemployed Americans received benefits in March. And the official unemployment numbers themselves aren’t even capturing the whole picture: An Economic Policy Institute report recently found that for every ten people who successfully filed an unemployment claim between mid-March to mid-April, five to six either tried to apply and didn’t get through, or didn’t even bother because it was so difficult to do so.
VICE
May 7, 2020
“If our policies do not adequately address these racial gaps and disparities in income, prosperity, employment and wages, we will see the same trends that we have seen historically,” observed Valerie Wilson, director of the Economic and Ethnic Studies program at the Economic Policy Institute.
AP News
May 7, 2020
In other H-1B news, the Economic Policy Institute released a report Monday criticizing how those visas are administered. It found that major U.S. companies, including Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple, take advantage of the program to underpay tech workers with visas.
Marketplace
May 7, 2020
Ultimately, for all its limits, the CARES Act is “much more balanced than most things to come out of Congress,” said Josh Bivens, the research director at the Economic Policy Institute. “The real way that policy benefits the wealthy over everyone else is in the day-to-day grind of policymaking.” These benefits come in many forms, from laws limiting union power to the stagnant federal minimum wage to a tax code that has, remarkably, done little to offset the dramatic rise in income inequality in the U.S. over the last four decades. “When there’s less of a spotlight, then the people who have more resources to put on that pressure every single day, they just win those fights. There’s just not an apparatus of people waking up every day looking to fight for the economic interest of low- and middle-income workers.”
The New Republic
May 7, 2020
Ultimately, for all its limits, the CARES Act is “much more balanced than most things to come out of Congress,” said Josh Bivens, the research director at the Economic Policy Institute. “The real way that policy benefits the wealthy over everyone else is in the day-to-day grind of policymaking.” These benefits come in many forms, from laws limiting union power to the stagnant federal minimum wage to a tax code that has, remarkably, done little to offset the dramatic rise in income inequality in the U.S. over the last four decades. “When there’s less of a spotlight, then the people who have more resources to put on that pressure every single day, they just win those fights. There’s just not an apparatus of people waking up every day looking to fight for the economic interest of low- and middle-income workers.”
The New Republic
May 7, 2020
Ultimately, for all its limits, the CARES Act is “much more balanced than most things to come out of Congress,” said Josh Bivens, the research director at the Economic Policy Institute. “The real way that policy benefits the wealthy over everyone else is in the day-to-day grind of policymaking.” These benefits come in many forms, from laws limiting union power to the stagnant federal minimum wage to a tax code that has, remarkably, done little to offset the dramatic rise in income inequality in the U.S. over the last four decades. “When there’s less of a spotlight, then the people who have more resources to put on that pressure every single day, they just win those fights. There’s just not an apparatus of people waking up every day looking to fight for the economic interest of low- and middle-income workers.”
The New Republic
May 7, 2020
In San Francisco, an experienced director of communications might make $120,00 a year, which turns into about $80,400 cash in hand after state, local and federal taxes are factored in. The office is 15 miles away and an hour commute each way. That’s another $4,380 per year, using a cost-of-commuting calculator, and roughly 21 days spent each year driving to and from work. Housing for a couple, according to the Economic Policy Institute’s budget calculator, runs about $28,700.
Research by Rate
May 7, 2020