According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than one-third of working women, compared with just 15.7 percent of working men, are employed in two industries that have been significantly affected by the virus: the health care and social assistance industry and the leisure and hospitality industry. In both fields, women are paid less than their male peers, according to research by the Economic Policy Institute.
The New York Times
April 22, 2020
The sudden unemployment crisis exposes a key deficit in the U.S. health care system: the fact that, for 165 million Americans, their access to medical care depends on their jobs. Indeed, updating the Economic Policy Institute’s (EPI) estimates, 8.8 million Americans have lost their employer-sponsored coverage in the past four weeks.
Scientific American
April 22, 2020
Prominent companies such as Walt Disney (DIS) and Southern California Edison have been accused of replacing American workers with cheaper foreign labor. A New York Times report showed that outsourcing companies were “gaming the visa system.” A study from the Economic Policy Institute showed that H-1B workers were underpaid at Indian IT firms providing outsourcing services in the U.S. for American companies. These companies saved more than $20,000 a year per worker when they hired Indians instead of Americans. The Migration Policy Institute found that the top H-1B dependent companies, or those whose workforce consists of at least 15% H-1B visa holders, meet the criteria to avoid extra scrutiny via the loophole “but still pay their H-1B workers less and employ fewer workers with advanced degrees than those that are not H-1B-dependent.”
Investopedia
April 22, 2020
A range of health experts note that Blacks face a higher risk of exposure to the virus, because significant numbers of them are concentrated in urban areas and are working in essential industries. About 20 percent of Black workers reported being eligible to work from home, compared with about 30 percent of their White counterparts, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
The Final Call
April 22, 2020
“I think there’s no doubt that the world economy is headed for the deepest recession since at least the Second World War and possibly since the Great Depression,” said economist Robert Scott, the director of trade and manufacturing policy research at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington.
VOA
April 22, 2020
Paid sick leave also impacts some sectors more than others. just 48 percent of workers in leisure and hospitality have access to paid sick leave,” according to the Economic Policy Institute.
The Moguldom Nation
April 22, 2020
That number of suddenly uninsured people comes from a report by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. Occupy Democrats confirmed in a Facebook message its post was based on that study.
Farmers Advance
April 22, 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.
Noozhawk
April 22, 2020