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State of working America 2021: Measuring wages in the pandemic labor market

Originally published: Economic Policy Institute (EPI) on April 27, 2022 by Elise Gould and Jori Kandra (more by Economic Policy Institute (EPI)) | (Posted May 09, 2022)

Measuring wages in the pandemic labor market
Pandemic economic woes continue, but so do deep structural problems, especially the long-term growth in the share of low wage jobs

Martin Hart-Landsberg

Many are understandably alarmed about what the September 4th termination of several special federal pandemic unemployment insurance programs will mean for millions of workers.
What Do ICE Raids Mean for the Rest of Us?

David L. Wilson

What would happen to Trump’s support if more of us understood that the real effect of ICE raids is the transfer of money out of workers’ paychecks into the bank accounts of unscrupulous employers like Trump himself?