WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today released a new economic report that documents for the first time the severe disparity in historical job quality for Black and Hispanic workers compared to the national average for all U.S. workers. The report, “Quantifying Job Quality for U.S., Black, Hispanic, and Asian American Workers,”…
CPA’s Job Quality Index reveals that Black Americans and Hispanic Americans suffer from far worse job quality than the total workforce, as measured by the weekly wages of all U.S. production and nonsupervisory employees. These disparities are due to the decline of high quality jobs such as those in the manufacturing sector and the rise…
The Job Quality Index shows that less lower-wage workers returned to work in April, due in part to generous unemployment benefits, now extended to September. Higher paying jobs, therefore, trumped lower-paying ones last month.
With jobs being added back to the U.S. economy after nearly a year of economic restrictions, higher paying wages are leading to an improvement in the Job Quality Index. The index, created by researchers and economists from Cornell University and the Coalition for a Prosperous America hit 81.99 in March, up by 0.48% from its…
It’s time for Elizabeth Warren to re-introduce her pharmaceutical supply chain legislation.
After the year 2000, US manufacturing employment experienced a rapid, unprecedented decline with the loss of some six million manufacturing jobs. Many commentators have described this as a normal, even healthy evolution, with workers allegedly moving into “jobs of the future” in the service sector. After the year 2000, US manufacturing employment experienced a rapid,…
