“We added 678,000 jobs in February, for a total of 7.9 million jobs added since the end of 2020. It’s mindbogglingly fast and sustained growth—well over half a million jobs added per month on average for more than a year.” – Heidi Shierholz of the Economic Policy Institute.
The Fiscal Times
March 11, 2022
“The white unemployment rate is now lower than the Black unemployment rate has ever been,” said Elise Gould, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute.
CNBC
March 11, 2022
And while the economy is recovering fast, Economic Policy Institute’s senior economist Elise Gould and President Heidi Shierholz explain in a CNN op-ed that we need to ensure it works for everyone.
AFL-CIO
March 11, 2022
Today, women account for 88.6 percent of home health care workers and 94 percent of child care workers, according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute, with women of color and immigrant women making up disproportionate shares of both workforces. Wages and job quality remain low, and benefits are scarce. EPI reports that home health care workers and child care workers are far less likely to have employer-sponsored health insurance or retirement coverage than the workforce as a whole.
Washington Center for Equitable Growth
March 11, 2022
“It’s mindbogglingly fast and sustained growth — well over half a million jobs added per month on average for more than a year,” Heidi Shierholz, president at the Economic Policy Institute, wrote on Twitter. More than nine out of every 10 jobs lost during the pandemic recession have been regained, she added.
CNN Business
March 11, 2022
“The phrase ‘little changed’ appears 12 times in the latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey for January 2022,” notes Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute.
Reuters
March 11, 2022
The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) projects there will be a demand for approximately 300,000 new teachers nationwide and a supply of just over 100,000 by 2024.
KTRE 9
March 11, 2022
“High quits are decidedly not translating into workers leaving the labor force in large numbers,” Elise Gould, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, said in a tweet. “In fact … we are seeing a steady return of workers back to the labor market (many of whom are getting jobs).”
CNBC
March 11, 2022
The contrast between the overall positive economic growth numbers and Biden’s negative poll numbers has flummoxed some economists who generally support the Democratic policies. “The disconnect is huge,” Heidi Shierholz, the president of the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning, pro-union think tank, told me this week. Like many following the issue, she wondered how much media coverage of the economy is to blame, noting that sometimes when she praises Biden’s job-creation record, “people think I’m saying talking points.”
Philadelphia Inquirer
March 11, 2022
Josh Bivens, research director of the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, wrote in an email to PolitiFact Texas the statement does not (paywall).
Austin American-Statesman
March 11, 2022