The Economic Policy Institute released a budget calculator in 2018 that shows how much money Miamians spend on housing, food, transportation, and other needs. A single resident spends upward of $37,000 yearly on basic needs. And a family of four spends almost $85,000. A single parent with two kids spends roughly $74,000 on basics.
Miami New Times
March 6, 2020
The gender-based wage gap hits black women the hardest. The Economic Policy Institute looked at the wage gap between black women and white women and found that “black women work more hours than white women. They have increased work hours 18.4 percent since 1979.” Despite this increase, black women still make 17 percent less than white women.
MSN
March 6, 2020
According to data from the Economic Policy Institute, the average annual cost of infant care in Arizona is $10,948 — that’s $912 per month. This means that infant care for one child can take up 19.8% of a median Arizona family’s income.
AZ Central
March 6, 2020
“Send thousand-dollar checks to everyone, along the lines of Bush in 2008,” said Josh Bivens, a director of research at the liberal Economic Policy Institute. “Of all the things Bush did economically, it was among the better ones.”
Huffington Post
March 6, 2020
Lost wages from having to stay home will put a hole in most low-income families’ budgets. Two days’ worth of pay can equal one month’s worth of gas, making it harder for workers to get to their jobs, the Economic Policy Institute in Washington found https://www.epi.org/publication/work-sick-or-lose-pay-the-high-cost-of-being-sic k – w h e n – y o u – d o n t – g e t – p a i d – s i c k – d a y s .
More than 27 million people in the United States do not have health insurance, according to U.S. Census data. Workers in that group may put off getting medical treatment because they are concerned they can’t afford the bills, said Elise Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute.
CNBC
March 6, 2020
On Thursday morning, a new study by researcher Josh Bivens at the Economic Policy Institute found that a Medicare for All system “would bolster the labor market, strengthen economic security for millions of U.S. households, and would likely boost the number of jobs in the U.S. labor market.”
Medicare for All, according to the study, would:
- Provide a potential boost to wages and salaries by allowing employers to redirect healthcare spending to workers’ wages.
- Increase job quality by ensuring that every job would come bundled with a guarantee of health care.
- Lessen the income loss, stress, and economic shock of unemployment and job transitions by eliminating the loss of health care that accompanies job-loss
- Support self-employment and small business development—which is low in the United States relative to other rich Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries—by eliminating the daunting cost of health care from startup costs.
- Inject new dynamism into the overall economy by reducing “job lock,” by allowing workers to go where their skills and preferences lie, not just to workplaces with affordable health plans.
Common Dreams
March 6, 2020
A maioria dos americanos sem licença médica tem salários baixos, o que agrava o impacto da falta do benefício. Segundo estudo do think tank Economic Policy Institute, para trabalhadores de baixa renda, três dias sem receber pagamento equivalem ao orçamento mensal para compra de comida.
“Têm de escolher entre trabalhar doentes (ou mandar seus filhos para a escola doentes) ou ficar sem o pagamento de que tanto necessitam”, diz o estudo.
BBC
March 6, 2020
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention can tone ask workers who are sick to stay home, but many states do not require businesses to provide paid sick days for their employees. The Economic Policy Institute reports that “access to paid sick days is vastly unequal. The highest wage workers are more than three times as likely to have access to paid sick leave as the lowest paid workers. Whereas 93 percent of the highest wage workers had access to paid sick days, only 30 percent of the lowest paid workers were able to earn sick days.” Maine has a paid leave law, but it does not take effect until January 1, 2021 and it excludes seasonal workers.
Bangor Daily News
March 6, 2020
Institute for Public Accuracy
March 6, 2020