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On Friday, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics will release figures for unemployment in the month of July. Erica Groshen is a senior labor economics advisor at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She is a former commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and has written extensively on how economies can recover from recessions.

Economics and Business

Industrial and Labor Relations

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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced today that public schools will not fully reopen for the upcoming school year. New York City students will return to school on a limited basis with only one to three days a week of in-person education and remote learning the remainder of the days. Noliwe Rooks, expert in cultural and racial implications for education says Mayor de Blasio needs to immediately outline plans for supporting low-income Black and Latinx children, and their families, who will be greatly impacted by this plan.

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Arts and Sciences

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On Thursday, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics will release figures for unemployment in the month of June. Cornell experts Erica Groshen and Murillo Campello are available for interviews about the report and the challenges facing the U.S. job market.

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Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

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Katrina Nobles, Director of Conflict Programs at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, says that while the Supreme Court decision is a step forward, there are still several steps companies and individuals should take to ensure rights for LGBTQ employees and others in the workplace.

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Andrew Karolyi, professor of finance and economics at the SC Johnson College of Business, and Erica Groshen, a faculty member at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, comment on the release of first quarter GDP estimates.  

Economics and Business

Law and Policy

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On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) will release unemployment figures for the month of May. The report will shed light on a crucial period of coronavirus-related lockdowns, mid-April to mid-May, and the devastating economic consequences for workers across the country. Daniel Alpert, senior fellow and adjunct professor of macroeconomics at Cornell Law School, and Erica Groshen, senior extension faculty member at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, offer their analysis. 

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Law School

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On Wednesday, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released figures featuring New York state specific unemployment data for the month of April. Economic geographer, Russell Weaver says that there is ample reason to believe that New York’s unemployment situation is more extreme than the U.S. average.

Industrial and Labor Relations

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With states across the U.S. taking steps towards reopening businesses, local health officials have offered guidance on what employers ought to do to keep returning employees safe. Nellie Brown, director of workplace health and safety programs at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, says that while risk cannot be reduced to zero, the safety standards businesses put in place today will help workplaces reduce the spread of many diseases, not just Covid-19.

Industrial and Labor Relations

Economics and Business

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The U.S. Department of Labor is expected to release figures for April’s unemployment rate on Friday. Russell Weaver, an economic geographer predicts data for New York state will show an unemployment rate of around 13%.

Industrial and Labor Relations

New York State

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The U.S. Department of Labor reported on Thursday that 4.4 million workers filed new unemployment claims last week, bringing the total number of claims to 26 million in just five weeks. Erica Groshen says that today’s data reinforces forecasts of a Great Depression-level unemployment rate by the end of April.

Economics and Business

Industrial and Labor Relations

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