The pandemic hit retail, restaurants and hotels hard, which has a disproportionate impact on women and Black and Latino populations research has shown, further exacerbating the wage gap for Latinas, according to NWLC. But the wage gap is also affecting Latina workers in professions critical to COVID-19 recovery such as doctors and nurses, according to an Oct. 28 report by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). Latinas in these occupations, on average, earn 6% to 32% less than White men. The wage gap is highest among doctors and surgeons. Latina physicians are paid 68% of the average hourly wage of non-Hispanic White male doctors (a difference of $20.46 per hour), according to the report.
HR Dive
October 30, 2020
AUSTIN (KXAN) — For every dollar a white, non-Hispanic male makes, Latinas are paid 55 cents. Latinas have to work almost 11 additional months into the next year to be paid as much as their white male counterparts for doing the same exact job, according to the economic policy institute.
KXAN
October 30, 2020
When hundreds of thousands of people are falling behind on bills or making those household budget compromises, the ripple effect is far-reaching said Heidi Shierholz, an economist with the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank.
“It’s really bad for the economy, but it does seem like there’s very little chance anything will happen before the election,” Shierholz said.
KJZZ
October 30, 2020
Trump also appears unconcerned with the record number of Americans who lost their jobs in the pandemic shutdown, except for the fact that their losses ruined a jobs streak that occurred on his watch. This is of a piece with his administration. The president has repeatedly claimed to have created gains in manufacturing positions, even though experts say he did no such thing. In a report released this summer, the Economic Policy Institute flatly declared, “offshoring and the loss of manufacturing plants have continued under Trump.” The stock market has been falling, and the Dow Jones industrial average fell by more than 1,500 points in the past week. Trump, who forever boasts when markets are on the rise, is silent.
Washington Post
October 30, 2020
The left-leaning Economic Policy Institute said workplace democracy and ability of working people to unionize was key to protect their rights.
Thompson Reuters
October 30, 2020
A report by the Economic Policy Institute published in August contradicted his claims, however. It found that far from reenergizing the so-called Rust Belt — former industrial areas of the northeastern US that had seen a sharp economic decline since the 1990s — more manufacturing jobs left the US than were created during Trump’s first two years in office.
Indian Express
October 30, 2020
Valerie Wilson, an economist at the labor-backed Economic Policy Institute, said that policy response to COVID-19 must acknowledge its effects on many racial groups. She added that no policy is ever race-neutral.
Wilson said that there is going to be a differential impact because society is structured. She added that the Black unemployment rate had been twice the size of the white rate.
Latin Post
October 30, 2020
Typically, there are enough applications submitted at the two highest wage levels to meet the cap, said Ron Hira, a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) in Washington, D.C., and an associate professor of political science at Howard University. Hira co-authored a May 2020 report at EPI that found 60 percent of H-1B positions certified in fiscal year 2019 were assigned the two lowest prevailing wage levels, which were “significantly lower” than the local median salaries surveyed for occupations.
Society for Human Resource Management
October 30, 2020
Economists say other relief policies have proved more effective at boosting the economy. For instance, an extra $600 in weekly unemployment pay helped bolster households that had suffered job or income losses — until it expired in July. In May alone, the program boosted personal income by $842 billion, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
CBS News
October 30, 2020
In New Jersey, where she lives, the average cost for child care for a 4-year-old costs $10,855 annually, according to the Economic Policy Institute.13 And according to data from September, women are leaving the workforce at four times the rate of men.14 Families, and women, in particular, are bearing the brunt of taking care of children and running a household during the pandemic when many children haven’t returned to in-person teaching.
Very Well Health
October 30, 2020
“Blocking more stimulus is not just cruel, it’s terrible economics. For example, the spending made possible by the extra $600 in UI was supporting millions of jobs. Letting the $600 expire means cutting those jobs,” wrote Heidi Shierholz, senior economist and director of policy at the liberal Economic Policy Institute in a recent blog post.
MarketWatch
October 30, 2020
According to the Economic Policy Institute, Black children are more than twice as likely as White children to attend high-poverty schools and researchers estimate that primarily white school districts receive $23 billion more in annual funding than non-white school districts.
CNBC
October 30, 2020
According to LeanIn.org, Latina women make 55 cents for every dollar made by a white man, which accounts for more than 1 million dollars lost over their lifetime. Latina women are overrepresented in some of the lowest paid jobs, according to the National Women’s Law Center. And, as the Economic Policy Institute reports, the population has also faced disproportionate economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mashable
October 30, 2020
“Although the current strain of the coronavirus is one that humans have never experienced before, the disparate racial impact of the virus is deeply rooted in historic and ongoing social and economic injustices,” the Economic Policy Institute reported. “Persistent racial disparities in health status, access to health care, wealth, employment, wages, housing, income, and poverty all contribute to greater susceptibility to the virus — both economically and physically.”
My Horry News
October 30, 2020
Since then, Bernstein has spent much of his career evangelizing that message from within progressive think tanks—first at the Economic Policy Institute during the “big government is over” ’90s, and now at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, where he is a senior fellow. In 2016, Politico named him one of the 50 “thinkers” transforming American politics. He came in at No. 21. Madeleine Albright, Lena Dunham, and Gloria Steinem tied for No. 22.
The Atlantic
October 30, 2020
Experts attribute the divide to a “double wage gap” whereby Latinas are subjected to both gender and ethnic bias, crippling upward mobility and limiting earnings to an average of 55 cents on the dollar compared to white men. According to the Economic Policy Institute, while the types of occupation and lack of education remain critical factors, even when accounting for those factors, in addition to experience and location, Latinas are still vastly underpaid compared to their white male colleagues across professions.
In the Know
October 30, 2020
The Economic Policy Institute reported that Hispanic women are subject to a double pay gap — the first one is ethnic pay, which means they are getting less money just because they are Latinas. The other gap is the gender pay gap; they earn less because they are females.
Hola!
October 30, 2020
The pandemic hit retail, restaurants and hotels hard, which has a disproportionate impact on women and Black and Latino populations research has shown, further exacerbating the wage gap for Latinas, according to NWLC. But the wage gap is also affecting Latina workers in professions critical to COVID-19 recovery such as doctors and nurses, according to an Oct. 28 report by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). Latinas in these occupations, on average, earn 6% to 32% less than White men. The wage gap is highest among doctors and surgeons. Latina physicians are paid 68% of the average hourly wage of non-Hispanic White male doctors (a difference of $20.46 per hour), according to the report.
HR Dive
October 30, 2020
AUSTIN (KXAN) — For every dollar a white, non-Hispanic male makes, Latinas are paid 55 cents. Latinas have to work almost 11 additional months into the next year to be paid as much as their white male counterparts for doing the same exact job, according to the economic policy institute.
KXAN
October 30, 2020
When hundreds of thousands of people are falling behind on bills or making those household budget compromises, the ripple effect is far-reaching said Heidi Shierholz, an economist with the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank.
“It’s really bad for the economy, but it does seem like there’s very little chance anything will happen before the election,” Shierholz said.
KJZZ
October 30, 2020
Trump also appears unconcerned with the record number of Americans who lost their jobs in the pandemic shutdown, except for the fact that their losses ruined a jobs streak that occurred on his watch. This is of a piece with his administration. The president has repeatedly claimed to have created gains in manufacturing positions, even though experts say he did no such thing. In a report released this summer, the Economic Policy Institute flatly declared, “offshoring and the loss of manufacturing plants have continued under Trump.” The stock market has been falling, and the Dow Jones industrial average fell by more than 1,500 points in the past week. Trump, who forever boasts when markets are on the rise, is silent.
Washington Post
October 30, 2020
The left-leaning Economic Policy Institute said workplace democracy and ability of working people to unionize was key to protect their rights.
Thompson Reuters
October 30, 2020
A report by the Economic Policy Institute published in August contradicted his claims, however. It found that far from reenergizing the so-called Rust Belt — former industrial areas of the northeastern US that had seen a sharp economic decline since the 1990s — more manufacturing jobs left the US than were created during Trump’s first two years in office.
Indian Express
October 30, 2020
Valerie Wilson, an economist at the labor-backed Economic Policy Institute, said that policy response to COVID-19 must acknowledge its effects on many racial groups. She added that no policy is ever race-neutral.
Wilson said that there is going to be a differential impact because society is structured. She added that the Black unemployment rate had been twice the size of the white rate.
Latin Post
October 30, 2020
Typically, there are enough applications submitted at the two highest wage levels to meet the cap, said Ron Hira, a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) in Washington, D.C., and an associate professor of political science at Howard University. Hira co-authored a May 2020 report at EPI that found 60 percent of H-1B positions certified in fiscal year 2019 were assigned the two lowest prevailing wage levels, which were “significantly lower” than the local median salaries surveyed for occupations.
Society for Human Resource Management
October 30, 2020
Economists say other relief policies have proved more effective at boosting the economy. For instance, an extra $600 in weekly unemployment pay helped bolster households that had suffered job or income losses — until it expired in July. In May alone, the program boosted personal income by $842 billion, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
CBS News
October 30, 2020
Experts attribute the divide to a “double wage gap” whereby Latinas are subjected to both gender and ethnic bias, crippling upward mobility and limiting earnings to an average of 55 cents on the dollar compared to white men. According to the Economic Policy Institute, while the types of occupation and lack of education remain critical factors, even when accounting for those factors, in addition to experience and location, Latinas are still vastly underpaid compared to their white male colleagues across professions.
In the Know
October 30, 2020
Since then, Bernstein has spent much of his career evangelizing that message from within progressive think tanks—first at the Economic Policy Institute during the “big government is over” ’90s, and now at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, where he is a senior fellow. In 2016, Politico named him one of the 50 “thinkers” transforming American politics. He came in at No. 21. Madeleine Albright, Lena Dunham, and Gloria Steinem tied for No. 22.
The Atlantic
October 30, 2020