In April, the unemployment rate in the U.S. stood at 3.2% for white Americans and 5.9% for Black Americans.
“The ongoing COVID-19 crisis continues to highlight the many layers of racial inequality in the U.S. labor market,” Valerie Wilson, director of the Economic Policy Institute’s Program on Race, Ethnicity & the Economy, told a congressional committee in January.
“In contrast to the nearly uniform rise in unemployment rates between February and April 2020, since that time, the white unemployment rate has fallen fastest,” she said.
Crain’s Chicago Business
May 20, 2022
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A leaked draft of a majority opinion authored by Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito strongly suggests that the court will rule to overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the two landmark cases that have upheld the right to an abortion nationwide for the last half century. If the final ruling largely follows what is sketched out in the leaked draft, abortion services will be drastically curtailed, if not outright banned, in over half the country.
In These Times
May 20, 2022
Terri Gerstein is the director of the State and Local Enforcement Project at the Harvard Labor and Worklife Program and a senior fellow at the Economic Policy Institute. She was previously the Labor Bureau chief in the New York State Attorney General’s Office.
NBC Think
May 20, 2022
This legislation also strengthens and expands requirements for public companies to disclose their pricing strategies in their filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and grants new funding to the FTC. A recent study by the Economic Policy Institute concluded that fatter corporate profit margins have driven more than half of prices increases since 2020.
Office of Senator Ed Markey
May 13, 2022
The coalition led by the Texas AFL-CIO, and including the National Employment Law Project, Communications Workers of America, and the Economic Policy Institute, filed a friend-of-the-court brief Monday asking the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas to grant the government’s motion to dismiss. The Justice Department has asked the federal court to toss a challenge from Texas, Mississippi, and Louisiana, which sued to block an executive order from President Joe Biden.
Bloomberg Law
May 13, 2022
Using data from the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, let’s take a look at the current cost of child care in the commonwealth
Pennsylvania Capital-Star
May 13, 2022
Amazon and other large corporations are also responsible for a combined state and local tax shortfall estimated to be between $43 billion and $57 billion, the Economic Policy Institute reports. That’s enough money to pay for high quality, universal pre-kindergarten programs for children ages 3 and 4 nationwide, advocates say.
Truthout
May 13, 2022
It’s a great benefit for working families who have expenses of caring for their kids. But the value of the benefit has significantly declined over the years since the provision was enacted because the exclusion amount has not kept up with inflation, while child and dependent care expenses have increased. According to the Economic Policy Institute, the cost of childcare in every state exceeds this $5,000 limit.
Bloomberg Tax
May 13, 2022
The Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, previously said there’s some merit to suggestions that the gap narrows based on career differences. But researchers there have also argued that career choice isn’t as straightforward as it seems.
Business Insider
May 13, 2022
The average annual cost of infant care in Oregon is more than the cost of college tuition, according to a report by the Economic Policy Institute.
Fox 12
May 13, 2022