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• Voters disapprove of Republican policy to keep health insurance Exchanges Closed

  The decision has implications for large swaths of the country, as a recent Economic Policy Institute report found an estimated 3.5 million Americans likely lost their employer-provided health insurance in recent weeks. Nearly two-thirds of states rely on the federal health insurance marketplace, including much of red-state America, while six others use the federal platform, which controls eligibility and enrollment functions, to administer their own marketplace, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

  April 9, 2020
• Not safe for work

  And it comes the same day as the Economic Policy Institute released a new report warning that many of the nation’s 2.2 million domestic workers are experiencing a “devastating loss of income.” More than half of those surveyed by the National Domestic Workers Alliance had no job for the week of March 30, and that figure rose to 68% the following week, according to the study.

  Many of those still on the job are risking their health because they don’t have adequate protective equipment, even though they are helping families follow guidelines to prevent the spread of coronavirus and are caring for the sick, elderly and disabled, the EPI report says.

  SN&R Extra April 9, 2020
• In Las Vegas, the Coronavirus Odds Are Not in Our Favor

  About 206,000 of Nevada’s casino workers have been affected by the mandatory closings. The week after the shutdown, Nevadans set a record for the most unemployment claims in the state’s history: over 92,000. The Economic Policy Institute predicts that our unemployment rate will be 19.7 percent by summer.

  April 9, 2020
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• Workers always needed paid leave. It took a pandemic to show the U.S.

  “There are definitely some things about this [act] that make lives better, and there are some holes that need to be fixed,” said Elise Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a Washington, D.C.-based think tank.

  Marguerite Casey Foundation April 8, 2020
• April 8, 2020
• Only sirens puncture New York City’s grudging silence

  The pandemic has shed a light on the deep inequality that defines this city. According to a report by the Economic Policy Institute, only one in five African American workers and roughly one in six Hispanic workers are able to work from home. Many of them work as grocery, home delivery, and restaurant delivery workers and are considered essential during the period of the shutdown reminding one of the privilege linked to social distancing.

  April 8, 2020
• COVID-19: $2 billion available to pay unemployed workers

  The Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning Washington think tank, estimated a couple of days ago that the unemployment rate in Nevada could reach 19.7 percent by July. As recently as February, the jobless rate statewide stood at 3.6 percent.  In the Reno area, it was even lower — 3.2 percent.

  The state will be particularly hard-hit in coming months because travelers need to stay home during the coronavirus outbreak, the Economic Policy Institute noted. Casino, hotel and restaurant employees, who account for more than 40 percent of Nevada’s workers, don’t have the option of teleworking.

  This is Reno April 8, 2020