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• US needs regular Covid relief until jobs return – leading macroeconomic influencers

  There has been enough evidence to suggest that combining cheques along with targeted programmes have been extremely effective. For example, the Urban Institute and the Economic Policy Institute found that combining payments along with expanded unemployment benefits in the summer of 2020 helped nearly 12 million people from falling into poverty in the US.

  Pharmaceutical Technology March 5, 2021
• Biden adminstration urged to implement H1B visa programme reforms

  According to a May 4, 2020 analysis by the Economic Policy Institute, a majority of H-1B employers use the visa programme to pay migrant workers below-market wages, and half of the top 30 H-1B employers use an outsourcing business model, they said.

  Yahoo March 5, 2021
• Black Families Have a Major Stake in the Postal Service’s Future

  The Center for Economic and Policy Research notes that the wage gap between white and Black workers is narrower among postal workers than among private sector employees. The Economic Policy Institute has found that Black workers’ share of USPS jobs is significantly higher than their share of all public sector jobs.

  Truthout March 5, 2021
• A tax on financial transactions could rein in Wall Street’s greed

  It’s been almost a year since the global financial sector had its last epic meltdown. In February and March of 2020, global stock prices dropped like stones, the US dollar spiked in value and the market for US government debt began lurching as investors began trying to hoard cash.

  CNN March 5, 2021
• The Daily Social Distancing Show

  Cites EPI at 5:52.

  The Daily Show March 5, 2021
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  March 5, 2021
• Is Teaching Still an Appealing Profession? A Growing Teacher Shortage Worries Experts

  “It’s hard to say it will be very appealing for young [students] to go into a profession that just at the beginning underpays you by about 20 percent relative to other professions,” says Emma García, an education economist at the Economic Policy Institute. “That is a pretty significant cut in your paycheck, and that is a penalty that has been growing for the last couple of decades.”

  EdSurge March 5, 2021
• Lawmakers amend Virginia Human Rights Act, kill workplace harassment bills

  A majority of domestic workers are women of color and are three times as likely to live in poverty than other workers, according to the Economic Policy Institute, an independent economic research organization.

  WTKR March 5, 2021
• Lindsey Graham Offers ‘Waffle House’ Plan to Dems Worried About $15 Minimum Wage

  Romney and Cotton’s plan would only raise wages for around 3 percent of American workers, compared to 21.2 percent of workers under the Democratic proposal, according to an analysis published by the Economic Policy Institute.

  Newsweek March 5, 2021
• Surgen oportunidades en el mercado laboral para la mujer hispana

  Según el Economic Policy Institute, de los más de 20 millones de desempleados registrados en abril del 2020, el 20.2% eran latinas. Y eso se debe, en gran parte, a que trabajan en las industrias más afectadas por los cierres a causa de la COVID-19: hospitalidad y esparcimiento (hoteles, restaurantes, entretenimiento y turismo), servicios (industria de limpieza, alimentos, atención médica y seguridad), comercio y educación, entre otros. Aunque hubo una eventual y leve recuperación en los meses subsiguientes, las mujeres hispanas aún constituían el 9.2% de los desempleados en enero del 2021.

  AARP March 5, 2021