… to a report by the Economic Policy Institute. Domestic workers are also disproportionately older, foreign-born and living in poverty. (paywall).
Colorado Politics
May 13, 2022
And Black families are hit the hardest. Formula is very expensive, with a yearly estimated cost between $1200 and $1500. Many Black families are more likely to work poverty-level jobs, according to Economic Policy Institute.
Black Wall Street Times
May 13, 2022
Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank, sees the return to work as a natural result of the world returning to a more normal business schedule after the worst days of the pandemic.
MarketWatch
May 13, 2022
Opportunities in industries that are focused on mitigating and adapting to climate change will likely proliferate due to the passage of this bill. According to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), climate-related and other environmental provisions in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act would support more than 763,000 jobs annually. Among the industries that account for these jobs are electric vehicle manufacturing and charging infrastructure—not a surprise when considering this legislation allocates significant funds to transportation programs.
Forbes
May 13, 2022
Well-off students are more likely to have the equipment needed to attend online school, according to a study published by the Economic Policy Institute. Seven percent of poor eighth-graders in the United States don’t have internet access, compared to only 1.6 percent of non-poor students.
Ms. Magazine
May 13, 2022
“It’s a baby step forward,” said Jennifer Sherer, a labor expert at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. But the bill “still leaves Colorado lagging behind the majority of states with stronger rights for public sector workers.”
Colorado Public Radio
May 13, 2022
Clean energy jobs, which pay on average $25 an hour, are still overwhelmingly held by men. Care jobs, on the other hand, pay on average $13.51 an hour and are predominantly filled by women, women of color and immigrants. Most workers don’t receive any additional benefits like retirement funds or health care, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
The 19th
May 13, 2022
“I just think he is in a really bad box because of this. Inflation is largely a global, geopolitical phenomenon that is just not under the Biden administration’s control,” said Josh Bivens, director of research at the Economic Policy Institute. “I think he’s in a really bad spot for reasons kind of entirely out of his control.”
The Hill
May 13, 2022
“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.
Crain’s Chicago Business
May 13, 2022
Jennifer Sherer is senior state policy coordinator for the Economic Analysis and Research Network (EARN) Worker Power Project at the Economic Policy Institute. The opinions expressed in this commentary are her own.
CNN Business
May 13, 2022