Presentation | Economic Policy Institute https://www.epi.org Research and Ideas for Shared Prosperity Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:00:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://files.epi.org/uploads/cropped-EPI-favicon-32x32.webp Presentation | Economic Policy Institute https://www.epi.org 32 32 The future of employer-based health insurance following health reform https://www.epi.org/publication/the_future_of_employer-based_health_insurance_following_health_reform/ Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:06:43 +0000 http://d2.epi.org/?publications=the_future_of_employer-based_health_insurance_following_health_reform On January 20, 2011, Elise Gould, EPI’s Director of Health Policy Research, gave a presentation (attached below) at the National Congress on Health Insurance Reform, examining the future of employer-based health insurance in the wake of health care reform. Although employer-sponsored health insurance has long been the principal source of health insurance, the share of Americans who have employer-sponsored health insurance has been falling for years.  In a 2010 Briefing Paper Gould showed that the share of Americans under age 65 that is covered by employer-based health insurance fell to 58.9% in 2009, from 61.9% in 2008, representing the ninth straight year of erosion.

See Gould’s presentation: The future of employer-based health insurance following health reform

]]> Trade policy and job loss https://www.epi.org/publication/trade_policy_and_job_loss/ Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:06:17 +0000 http://d2.epi.org/?publications=trade_policy_and_job_loss Advocates of free trade agreements, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, rely on deeply flawed projections for estimating the jobs impact of signing new free trade agreements (FTAs). As a result, these projections generally show that signing new FTAs will create jobs in the United States, when in fact doing so may destroy or displace jobs.

This Economic Policy Institute analysis examines the likely jobs impact of signing pending FTAs with Korea and Colombia. It shows, based on past experience, that these trade agreements will increase the U.S.’s trade deficit with both countries. Contrary to the Chamber’s projections, the EPI analysis then shows that the increased trade deficit per se will correspond to the loss of 214,000 jobs in the U.S. by 2015.

Depending on economic conditions, other factors may intervene to offset job losses, although they won’t change the fact that these jobs are displaced: The trade deficit per se will correspond to lost jobs in industries that compete with imports. While other factors could help spur job creation in other parts of the economy, for the factory worker who loses his or her job, this macroeconomic fact matters little. And given the weak U.S. economy, it’s unlikely that workers displaced from their jobs will find other employment quickly or easily.

Read this working paper in PDF format

PowerPoint: Economic impacts of the KORUS-FTA

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