The unemployment rate for African-Americans is the lowest since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began reporting it in 1972, but the Economic Policy Institute notes that the rate has been falling since 2011.
NBC 4
February 5, 2020
The president also often touts the black unemployment rate as being historically low. It was 5.4% nationally in the fourth quarter of 2019, but Georgia has lagged in spreading the gains as much to its black residents – according to the Economic Policy Institute, black unemployment in Georgia in the third quarter of 2019 was 6.1%.
11 Alive
February 5, 2020
Trump frequently claims that his presidency has been a boon for black workers, whose unemployment rate is at an all-time low. But as the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute points out, that doesn’t tell the whole story, because black workers are still twice as likely as their white counterparts to be without jobs, a disparity that persists throughout all education levels.
NBC News
February 5, 2020
Around the same time, the Economic Policy Institute wrote: “African American and Hispanic children continued to face the highest poverty rates—28.5% of African Americans and 23.7% of Hispanics under age 18 lived below the poverty level in 2018.” Not mentioned was the steeper decline since 2013 for children in these categories compared to White children.
American Enterprise Institute
February 5, 2020
Domestic workers are mostly female immigrants, according to a report by the Economic Policy Institute.
Bainbridge Island Review
February 5, 2020
The Economic Policy Institute in Washington D.C. found a four-person household must make more than $7,000 a month. Someone living on their own needs to make more than $3,000 a month.
13 News Now
February 5, 2020
It would also prohibit mandatory-arbitration rules that prevent workers from participating in class-action litigation, let individual workers sue for harm caused by labor-law violations or unfair labor practices, and expand penalties for those violations, including interference with the National Labor Relations Board or causing serious economic harm to an employee. The Economic Policy Institute estimated last December that workers are fired or illegally penalized in almost 30 percent of unionization elections. Workers fired could ask the NLRB to issue an injunction reinstating them, instead of having to wait years for a court decision.
LaborPress.org
February 5, 2020
“Things are improving right now because that’s where we are in the business cycle — and I don’t know how to put it without sounding partisan — but he literally can’t take credit for that,” Heidi Shierholz, senior economist at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, told Morning Shift.
Politico
February 5, 2020
Trump has presided over a solid economy since taking office in 2017 but mischaracterized the state of the economy under President Obama and overstated his accomplishments. In truth, the economy has mounted a steady recovery since the Great Recession of 2007-09, marking the longest expansion in American history.
“You have seen a continuation of the trend,” says Elise Gould, senior economist at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
USA Today
February 5, 2020
The U.S. lost 3.7 million jobs since 2001 due to its trade imbalance with China, with the manufacturing sector suffering the worst job losses, the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, D.C., said in a report last week.
Breitbart
February 5, 2020