KAKE News
May 12, 2020
Day-care and preschool costs grew almost twice as fast as overall inflation between 2000 and 2019, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics analyzed by Elise Gould, a senior economist with the Economic Policy Institute. In fact, Gould found day care and preschool inflation grew 94% while overall inflation grew 48% from 2000 to 2019.
CNBC
May 12, 2020
The NPEU, which currently has 27 bargaining units at varying stages of recognition, also refocused its efforts on organizing nonprofit workers in recent years. The union, previously known only as IFPTE Local 70, was founded in 1998 to represent workers at the Economic Policy Institute. It went through a rebrand two years ago, adopting its current name and commitment to attracting more nonprofit leads.
Bloomberg
May 12, 2020
The hiring of Patterson and Seaton is part of a trend of anti-union actions at hospitals and elsewhere, according to Gordon Lafer, a researcher at the Economic Policy Institute. “They’re facing increased interest of hospital workers to organize new unions, and are using these firms to engage in aggressive intimidation tactics to stop that from happening,” Lafer said.
According to a forthcoming report from the Economic Policy Institute, the use of these anti-labor consultants is at an all-time high, and employers are spending $400 million a year on these union-busting firms. Clients often give these companies large bonuses for successfully fending off union campaigns, according to the EPI report, and the individual consultants can make hundreds of dollars an hour.
The Nation
May 12, 2020
“People have internalized the idea of not panic selling,” Economic Policy Institute economist Monique Morrissey said of the prevailing stick-with-it attitude.
Bloomberg
May 12, 2020
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
The leisure and hospitality industry was the hardest hit, but other sectors, such as education and health care, also suffered significant losses. Female workers suffered a larger share of job losses in the COVID-19 labor market, according to Elise Gould of the Economic Policy Institute. In April, women suffered 54.9% of total job losses.
Karm Impact
May 11, 2020