Counting them as unemployed would push the rate up further, to almost 24%, according to calculations by economist Heidi Shierholz of the Economic Policy Institute.
AP News
May 11, 2020
Every state also has been battered by massive layoffs but those that rely heavily on tourism were hit worse, including Hawaii, Nevada, Florida, South Carolina and Louisiana, according to an analysis of jobless claims by the Economic Policy Institute.
Manufacturing strongholds like Michigan also have been affected, the EPI study shows, because many factories are shut down and employees can’t do those jobs from home.
USA Today
May 11, 2020
Those figures could climb to job losses of more than 20 million and an unemployment rate of 16% when the department this Friday releases the first jobs report covering an entire month of shutdowns, according to said Heidi Shierholz, policy director at the Economic Policy Institute, the Post reported.
Drugs.com
May 11, 2020
24/7 Wall St. created an index of the pandemic’s ongoing impact on each state’s economy, taking into account the number of COVID-19 cases per 10,000 residents, the share of employment in industries deemed high risk by Moody’s, new unemployment claims since mid-March and projected unemployment rates by state for July 2020 from the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank.
USA Today
May 11, 2020
Since college-educated workers are more likely to be able to work remotely than people without a college education, people without degrees risk being exposed to the disease on the job, or are forced to choose between their health and a paycheck in some cases. And because fewer than 1 in 5 black workers and 1 in 6 Hispanic workers are able to work remotely, according to the Economic Policy Institute, on-the-job exposure disproportionately affects people of color.
ABC News
May 11, 2020
Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, published an analysis of the latest economic data in a Thursday blog post, a day before the Department of Labor’s release of the much anticipated April jobs report.
Newsweek
May 11, 2020
As grave as this is, the Economic Policy Institute estimates that the COVID-19 pandemic may have prevented 30 percent to 40 percent of qualified applicants from claiming unemployment benefits. In addition, EPI analysts calculate that since March 15, between 8.9 million and 13.9 million people who could have filed for unemployment didn’t.
Noozhawk
May 11, 2020
However, the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) estimates that figure is far lower than the true number of Americans out of work. Nearly 14 million additional people could have filed if unemployment processes were easier, EPI calculates.
The Daily Chronicle
May 11, 2020
We have innovation, but also, people like their employer-sponsored health insurance. It’s, like, well, now we have twenty million people who don’t have that anymore. [By mid-April, twenty million Americans lost their jobs, and an estimate by the Economic Policy Institute suggests that roughly nine million Americans lost their employer-provided health insurance.] I think all those critiques were compelling to me. There was a certain portion of the Sanders folks who, I think, thought that, if they were able to win a narrow factional battle, they could essentially seize the palace, and that’s not how it works. They just didn’t convince enough people, and sometimes it felt like they were not trying.
The New Yorker
May 11, 2020