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• Preparing our citizens for the future, post coronavirus

  The tech industry has been the golden goose in our economy, generating our best-paid jobs. Politicians often urge young Americans to study STEM, and public schools have greatly expanded STEM course work. But the tech industry currently accounts for only about 10 percent of the economy; 71 percent of STEM workers in Silicon Valley are foreign born according to a report based on 2016 Census data, with many arriving on guest worker visas. And according to the Economic Policy Institute, only 50 percent of U.S. STEM college grads eventually land a STEM job.

  Bangor Daily News April 30, 2020
• The Tar Heel State Showdown Over Medicaid

  100 Days in Appalachia, a nonprofit digital newsroom, has pointed to the risk of COVID-19 closing rural hospitals as they halt nonemergency procedures and take on new costs to prepare for the pandemic. The progressive Economic Policy Institute has called on states to do more to prepare, including expanding Medicaid. With the November election approaching and every state legislative seat open, the question will be whether Republicans are willing to compromise, either ahead of the election or afterwards.

  The American Prospect April 30, 2020
• Between 8 and 12 million unemployed people who have not applied for unemployment aid are invisible

  A survey by the Economic Policy Institute released on Tuesday indicates that for every 10 people who applied for the subsidy, there are 3 or 4 who tried in vain and two more who did not even choose to do it because they found it difficult to do so.

  La Raza April 30, 2020
• The Sinister Logic of Trump’s Immigration Freeze

  “What this did instead was just mostly cut the number of people who can come to reunify with family, and including the … parents of adult U.S. citizens,” says Daniel Costa, an analyst with the Economic Policy Institute. Trump has “taken action to reduce the ways that immigrants can come to the U.S. where they have rights and a path to permanent residence and citizenship, but he hasn’t touched the visa categories where there’s tons of abuses.” Indeed, Trump has increased access to low-wage immigrant labor every year he has been in office, while sharply restricting the avenues available to immigrants for acquiring American citizenship.

  The Atlantic April 30, 2020
• Trump leverages the coronavirus pandemic to advance anti-immigrant policies

  Daniel Costa, an analyst at the Economic Policy Institute, told The Atlantic that Trump’s policies were more cruel than practical, noting that the “immigration ban” just “mostly cut the number of people who can come to reunify with family.”

  Trump, he said, has “taken action to reduce the ways that immigrants can come to the U.S. where they have rights and a path to permanent residence and citizenship, but he hasn’t touched the visa categories where there’s tons of abuses.”

  “Although the coronavirus outbreak has largely halted immigration to the United States, the pandemic will someday subside, while nativist efforts to engineer a white majority by fiat will not,” he wrote. “The long-term objective of those who crafted the president’s executive order is not to protect American workers, or to serve American business interests or to grow the American economy. It is to maintain America’s traditional aristocracy of race by any means necessary.”

  Salon April 30, 2020
• Warrenton extends virus emergency through May

  States have been overwhelmed by more than 26 million unemployment claims during the first five weeks of government restrictions over the coronavirus, including 330,000 Oregonians and nearly 3,000 people in the county. A recent national survey by the Economic Policy Institute found that for every 10 people who successfully filed unemployment benefits, three to four have tried and failed.

  The Daily Astorian April 30, 2020
• Why long-term flexible work options could be a game changer for women

  As the coronavirus pandemic continues to force millions of employees to work from home, experts predict these flexible work options could be here to stay. And according to Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, these policies could have a positive benefit on working women, allowing them to “make a schedule around the other responsibilities they have.”

  CNBC Make It spoke with Gould, along with several other experts, to discuss how long-term flexible work options could be a game changer for women at work and at home.

  CNBC April 30, 2020
• Will coronavirus create urgency to expand Medicaid? NC legislative debate has new life.

  She said more than 300,000 of those newly jobless North Carolinians likely lost their employer-sponsored health insurance, citing a study from the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal-leaning think tank.

  Raleigh News and Observer April 30, 2020
• How Will The US Economy, Small Businesses & Workers Recover From COVID-19 Losses?

  On this edition of Your Call, we’re speaking with Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz about how the US government has handled the COVID-19 crisis. He says the public safety net is not working and the US is on course for a second Great Depression.

  Later in the show, we’ll speak with Thea Lee, president of the Economy Policy Institute, about why millions of workers have been unable to collect unemployment benefits. What systemic changes are needed to tackle these issues?

  Guests:

  Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel prize-winning economist, professor at Columbia University, and author of Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti-Globalization in the Era of Trump

  Thea Lee, president of the Economic Policy Institute and co-author of The Field Guide to the Global Economy

  KALW April 30, 2020
• Jobless Rate Much Higher Than We Think: Millions Can’t Get Unemployment

  For every 10 people who successfully filed for unemployment insurance benefits over four weeks in March and April, an additional three to four people tried and failed to make claims, according to a survey released Tuesday by the Economic Policy Institute.

  “These findings imply the official count of unemployment insurance claims likely drastically understates the extent of employment reductions and the need for economic relief during the coronavirus crisis,” the study’s authors, Ben Zipperer and Elise Gould, wrote.

  103.7 The Fox April 30, 2020