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According to the Economic Policy Institute think tank, about half of states have passed “pre-emption laws” that forbid municipalities from passing their own PSL laws. This means that in places like Louisiana and Georgia that have no state-wide PSL laws, localities can’t pass their own. National COSH blames the NRA’s lobbying for this and other efforts to undermine the passage of these kinds of pro-labor laws.
Forbes April 27, 2020 -
The gap is further exemplified by worker demographics — around 16% of Hispanic workers and less than 20% of black workers are able to work from home, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Asian-American workers are most likely to have the ability to work from home, followed by non-Hispanic and white workers, the Economic Policy Institute reported.
Overall, less than 30% of American workers have the option to work from home, according to the Economic Policy Institute. School closures are adding to the burden: Workers are being forced to choose between taking care of their kids and working, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Lexington Herald-Leader April 27, 2020 -
Projections vary on the future of leisure and hospitality employment in Santa Barbara County. The country has already surpassed the 19.8 million job loss the Economic Policy Institute predicted would occur by June, according to Rupert. That would translate to about 165,000 jobs lost in California’s leisure and hospitality sector, 11,000 of which would come from Santa Barbara County. Taking the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis’s projection of 47 million jobs lost across the nation by June, that would translate to about 392,000 hospitality and leisure jobs lost in California, 26,000 from Santa Barbara County.
Edhat Santa Barbara April 27, 2020 -
Immigration’s impacts on the food supply are especially pronounced in the United States, where more than 50% of the agricultural workforce is comprised of undocumented immigrants. “Since time immemorial, immigrant workers have been especially vulnerable in our economy and have been doing difficult and dangerous jobs,” says Daniel Costa, who leads immigration law and policy research at the Economic Policy Institute. “Farm workers are by far some of the lowest paid workers in the labor market.”
Quartz April 27, 2020 -
In New York, COVID-19 kills Hispanic/Latinos at 1.6 times the rate of whites, the foundation’s research found. In other regions of the U.S., Hispanic/Latinos and black are also more likely to work in low-wage jobs that suffer high rates of layoffs, or limit their ability to work remotely, according to data from Economic Policy Institute Economist and former U.S. Department of Labor Chief Economist Heidi Shierholz in a New York Times study.
Oroville Mercury-Register April 27, 2020 -
For decades, the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) has been charting wages and wealth in this country. For example, here are nine charts EPI released about American wages and income inequality back in 2015, well before Donald Trump’s election; as we can see, they make two key points about conditions under Trump’s predecessors:
Breitbart April 27, 2020 -
The story is similar for Blacks. Nationally, only 16.2 percent of Hispanic workers and 19.7 percent of Blacks can telework, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
City Limits April 27, 2020 -
He is the author of 13 books, most recently, “The Crisis of Connection and the Pursuit of Our Common Humanity,” with co-authors Niobe Way, Carol Gilligan and Alisha Ali, and he has published more than 200 articles and monographs. Among his many honors, Noguera is an elected member of the National Academy of Education. He serves on the boards of numerous national and local organizations, including the Economic Policy Institute, and appears as a regular commentator on educational issues in national news media outlets. His commentaries on educational issues have been published in media including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and HuffPost.
UCLA April 27, 2020 -
The new figure suggests the unemployment rate is approaching the 25 percent peak recorded in 1933 during the Great Depression. Heidi Shierholz, senior economist at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, estimates unemployment is now at 18.3 percent, and an analysis by POLITICO’s Andrew McGill concludes that 16 percent of American workers have sought unemployment benefits since mid-March. “It will take several more weeks before claims drop below one million,” says Ian Shepherdson, chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics.
Politico April 27, 2020 -
Historically, every one percentage point increase in unemployment results in a $40 billion decrease in state revenue. Using this rule of thumb and combining local revenues, the Economic Policy Institute has estimated that states and cities will need at least $500 billion in additional aid to get through next year without savage cuts. The federal government has the ability and capacity to borrow this money to step in and support our states and cities. If we want to prevent a painful recovery from the COVID-19 crisis we need to get the needed funds to state and cities so they don’t cut spending to many essential areas.
The Hill April 27, 2020