Dr. Chris Beyrer, professor of epidemiology at Johns Hopkins, added that “occupational exposure” is expected to present higher risks for African Americans and Latinos as states move ahead with reopening. Only 16 percent of Latinos and 20 percent of African Americans are able to work from home, compared with 30 percent of white Americans, according to an analysis of Labor Department statistics by the Economic Policy Institute.
Politico
May 6, 2020
The Economic Policy Institute estimates 12.7 million Americans have lost their health insurance since the COVID-19 crisis began. Of the 1.6 million jobs lost in Florida over that span, 687,286 were jobs that provided health coverage, according to EPI data, some 43 percent of the total.
TC Palm
May 6, 2020
“Increasingly, people with a B.A. [degree] are being threatened by these things too,” Angus Deaton said in a May 4 interview by the Economic Policy Institute.
[Includes event live stream and Neil Munro tweet about EPI report.]
Breitbart
May 6, 2020
The Economic Policy Institute estimates 12.7 million Americans have lost their health insurance since the COVID-19 crisis began. Of the 1.6 million jobs lost in Florida over that span, 687,286 were jobs that provided health coverage, according to EPI data, some 43 percent of the total.
TC Palm
May 6, 2020
“Increasingly, people with a B.A. [degree] are being threatened by these things too,” Angus Deaton said in a May 4 interview by the Economic Policy Institute.
[Includes event live stream and Neil Munro tweet about EPI report.]
Breitbart
May 6, 2020
In 1994, public school teachers earned about 1.8% less per week than workers in other professions that required a college degree.
Business Insider
May 5, 2020
A survey by the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C., think tank, examined the problem. It found that for every 10 people who were able to successfully claim unemployment benefits, three or four others tried but were frustrated by the system and two others did not try because they found the system too difficult.
Omaha World-Herald
May 5, 2020
Nevada’s job market has so far been one of the hardest hit in the country. And according to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute, the state now has 25% of its workforce unemployed.
KUNR
May 5, 2020
The most recent estimates, offered by both the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities and the Economic Policy Institute, project a shortfall for the states alone of about $500 billion from now through June 2021, with localities losing an additional $250 billion. Even those numbers are based on projections of unemployment levels that increasingly look far too optimistic. With more than 30 million already filing for unemployment, we are nearing the record for joblessness set in the Great Depression. James Knightley, chief economist of ING, notes that by the end of May, fewer than one in two working-age Americans will be drawing a paycheck. If McConnell were to block aid to the states and localities, wholesale layoffs of teachers, police, public hospital staff, and caregivers for the poor and vulnerable would add hundreds of thousands to the number of unemployed.
The Nation
May 5, 2020