The rideshare company posted statistics from the Economic Policy Institute that shows the higher rate of exposure Black people have to contracting COVID-19 due to health disparities and holding lower-wage jobs that are deemed essential than other racial groups across the United States. The stats found that only 20 percent of Black workers were eligible to work from home, compared with 30 percent of white people.
The Grio
April 20, 2020
The Economic Policy Institute is urging Congress to allocate another $500 billion in federal aid to state and local governments, on top of the $150 billion already outlined in the CARES Act.
NJ Biz
April 20, 2020
The Washington Post published a story saying that millions of students are at risk of severe learning loss during the coronavirus pandemic and discussing some of the unprecedented steps to help them catch up. This post is a follow-up of sorts, looking at exactly why achievement gaps will “explode,” according to the scholar and author Richard Rothstein.
Rothstein is a distinguished fellow of the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute and a senior fellow emeritus at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and of the Haas Institute at the University of California at Berkeley. His most recent book is the award-winning “The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America.”
The Washington Post
April 20, 2020
“Workers and their families are paying the price for going into the current crisis with a weak social insurance system and public safety net. Given this pre-existing weakness, transformative responses to this economic crisis have to be put together on the fly, and the Paycheck Security Act is a bold solution to provide needed relief during the lockdown period of the crisis and would put us in much better position to mount a rapid recovery once the public health all-clear was sounded,” said Josh Bivens, Director of Research, Economic Policy Institute.
Alabama Political Reporter
April 20, 2020
“The UI provisions in the CARES Act were some of — if not the — strongest provisions of the act,” said labor economist Heidi Shierholz of the Economic Policy Institute and formerly part of the Obama administration. “It will alleviate the hardship of millions of people.”
VOX
April 20, 2020
In the U.S., unemployment during a health crisis can be especially challenging since about 49% of Americans get health insurance through their employer. As many as 9.2 million workers are at risk of losing their employer-provided health insurance, according to the latest estimates from the Economic Policy Institute.
CNBC
April 20, 2020
“We wiped that out so fast,” Heidi Shierholz, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, told Business Insider. “It’s mind-boggling.”
Markets Insider
April 20, 2020
The Economic Policy Institute estimates in the past four weeks, around nine million Americans have likely lost their employer-sponsored health insurance. A handful of states have either expanded Medicaid or opened a special enrollment period for people to sign up for ACA coverage during the pandemic.
Public News Service
April 20, 2020
A new report from the Economic Policy Institute estimates that approximately “3.5 million workers likely lost their employer-provided health insurance in the past two weeks.” To compound this situation, the Trump administration announced that it will not reopen Obamacare markets for purchasing health insurance plans through the Affordable Care Act. This really puts the uninsured behind the eight ball.
The California Aggie
April 20, 2020