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YangJane Liu By Type: CommentaryEconomic IndicatorsEconomic SnapshotReportTestimonyBlogMultimediaFact Sheet News from EPI › President-elect Biden’s relief and recovery proposal would be a lifeline to workers and their families January 14, 2021 By Josh Bivens Statement The economy President-elect Biden is inheriting: 26.8 million workers—15.8% of the workforce—are being directly hurt by the coronavirus crisis January 8, 2021 By Heidi Shierholz Blog News from EPI › December jobs report provides a clear picture of Trump’s failed handling of the economy January 8, 2021 By Elise Gould Economic Indicators COVID-19 relief should extend CARES Act work-sharing provisions December 7, 2020 By Stephen Herzenberg and Claire Kovach Blog The economy President-elect Biden is inheriting: More than 26 million workers—15.5% of the workforce—are being directly hurt by the coronavirus downturn December 4, 2020 By Heidi Shierholz Blog News from EPI › Recovery continues to wane: Expiring unemployment relief means more trouble around the corner December 4, 2020 By Elise Gould Economic Indicators What to watch on jobs day: An unfortunate continued slowing recovery due to the Senate’s inaction December 3, 2020 By Elise Gould Blog Reinstating and extending the pandemic unemployment insurance programs through 2021 could create or save 5.1 million jobs December 2, 2020 By Elise Gould and Josh Bivens Blog Principles for the relief and recovery phase of rebuilding the U.S. economy: Use debt, go big, and stay big, and be very slow when turning off fiscal support November 24, 2020 By Josh Bivens Report What the next president inherits: More than 25 million workers are being hurt by the coronavirus downturn November 6, 2020 By Heidi Shierholz Blog News from EPI › October jobs report: Next president inherits a devastated economy with millions out of work November 6, 2020 By Elise Gould Economic Indicators Heading into election day, at least 30 million workers are being hurt by the coronavirus recession November 2, 2020 By Heidi Shierholz Blog Updated state-level unemployment claims data: Workers across the country need Congress to increase unemployment benefits October 15, 2020 By Jori Kandra and Julia Wolfe Blog With millions of workers receiving unemployment benefits and no end in sight for the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress must act October 1, 2020 By Heidi Shierholz Blog Health insurance and the COVID-19 shock: What we know so far about health insurance losses and what it means for policy August 26, 2020 By Josh Bivens and Ben Zipperer Report Latinx workers—particularly women—face devastating job losses in the COVID-19 recession August 20, 2020 By Elise Gould, Daniel Perez, and Valerie Wilson Report Why we still need the $600 unemployment benefit July 24, 2020 By Heidi Shierholz Multimedia Almost four months in, joblessness remains at historic levels: Congress must extend the extra $600 in UI benefits, which expires in a little more than two weeks July 9, 2020 By Heidi Shierholz Blog Hires up, layoffs down but more economic pain is on the horizon: Policymakers must act in order to protect workers’ health and economic well-being July 7, 2020 By Elise Gould Economic Indicators What to watch on jobs day: A false start to the recovery June 30, 2020 By Elise Gould Blog Nearly 11% of the workforce is out of work with no reasonable chance of getting called back to a prior job June 29, 2020 By Heidi Shierholz Blog The U.S. economy remains in an enormous jobs deficit: The labor market was down 15.9 million jobs at the end of April (JOLTS data), and down 19.6 million at the middle of May (jobs data) June 9, 2020 By Heidi Shierholz and Elise Gould Economic Indicators News from EPI › While welcome gains, job losses since February still total 19.6 million: Now is not the time to stop providing relief June 5, 2020 By Elise Gould Economic Indicators Nearly 28 million workers applied for unemployment insurance benefits in the last six weeks: Congress must act to mitigate harm from unprecedented joblessness April 30, 2020 By Heidi Shierholz Blog Unemployment filing failures: New survey confirms that millions of jobless were unable to file an unemployment insurance claim April 28, 2020 By Ben Zipperer and Elise Gould Blog The next coronavirus relief package should provide aid to state and local governments, protect employed and unemployed workers, and invest in our democracy April 27, 2020 By Celine McNicholas, Josh Bivens, and Heidi Shierholz Blog In the last five weeks, more than 24 million workers applied for unemployment insurance benefits April 23, 2020 By Heidi Shierholz Blog The extreme jobless numbers will lead to a jump in the unemployment rate, but that won’t tell the whole story April 21, 2020 By Heidi Shierholz Blog Women have been hit hard by the coronavirus labor market: Their story is worse than industry-based data suggest April 15, 2020 By Elise Gould, Ben Zipperer, and Jori Kandra Blog Coronavirus job losses for the past two weeks could match two years of the Great Recession’s job losses: Estimates of new claims filed are 10 million April 3, 2020 By Aaron Sojourner and Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham Blog Load more...