According to the 2019 study done by the Economic Policy Institute, 30% of whites hold jobs that allow them to work from home, while 16% of Hispanics and 20% of blacks can work from home.
South Bend Tribune
April 21, 2020
According to the Economic Policy Institute, the top 1% take home 21% of all income in the United States, the largest share since 1928.
Seeking Alpha
April 21, 2020
And those of us stuck in part-time jobs are paid 30 percent less per hour than full-timers doing the same thing. That means we face a double penalty: not enough hours, and lower pay for each hour we do work. No wonder I had zero savings when I lost my job.
The New York Times
April 21, 2020
9.2 million workers are at risk of losing employer-provided health insurance in the last four weeks, according to recent EPI data. Economic Policy Institute Director of Research Josh Bivens joins Yahoo FInance’s Seana Smith to break down the details.
Yahoo Finance
April 21, 2020
In the four weeks leading up to April 11, the number of unemployment claims passed 22 million. According to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), that means that roughly 9.2 million workers likely lost their employer-sponsored health insurance during that time.
“As people continue to lose their jobs, which we expect that they will do unfortunately, we’re going to see losses in health insurance coverage,” Ben Zipperer, an economist at EPI, told Yahoo Finance. “That’s because in the United States, we’ve chosen as a country, unfortunately, to tie access to health insurance with employment.”
He continued: “If we avoided that, if we made sure everybody was covered, everybody has access to health insurance regardless of their employment status, we wouldn’t be in this kind of predicament.”
Yahoo Finance
April 21, 2020
Though not exhaustive, some other names on the Sanders campaign’s early list include Heather Boushey, an inequality expert with the Washington Center for Equitable Growth; Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, two leading economists in the world of wealth inequality and progressive taxation; Jeffrey Sachs, who runs Columbia University’s Center for Sustainable Development; Josh Bivens, an economist with progressive think tank Economic Policy Institute; Daniel Kammen, who runs the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Lab at University of California, Berkeley; Tara Raghuveer, an affordable housing activist who runs the Kansas City Tenants group; and Bonnie Castillo, the executive director with the National Nurses Union.
The Huffington Post
April 21, 2020
“Employers spend millions of dollars a year to hire union avoidance advisers to see how susceptible they are to their workers organizing,” Celine McNicholas, the director of government affairs and labor counsel for the Economic Policy Institute, said.
Overall, US companies spent at least $100 million on consulting services for anti-union campaigns between 2014 and 2017, according to data from the Economic Policy Institute based on disclosure forms filed with the US Department of Labor.
Business Insider
April 21, 2020
However, the nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute (EPI) has pointed out that only about 40% of workers are typically returning workers, and that halting the processing of new H-2A applications for an extended period of time could lead to a shortage of as many as 60,000 workers at a time when we’re facing peak summer demand.
Food Dive
April 21, 2020
Julia Wolfe, an economic analyst at the Economic Policy Institute, says to save truly small businesses, future legislation must be more clear.
“It’s not only a problem that folks are applying for it who might not be the target group. An even bigger problem is small businesses thinking that they don’t qualify or being worried about the strings attached and not understanding it. And they don’t end up applying for this loan that would actually benefit them and benefit their employees,” she said.
Spectrum News 1
April 21, 2020