New EPI research shows that education job losses in April were greater than during the entire Great Recession. We need to demand an immediate investment in teachers, students and public education in the midst of the pandemic.
 
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Education has been underfunded in the United States for a long time. That shortfall has and will become ever more present during this pandemic.
 
With schools winding down for the summer, plans are underway to determine how best to teach our students starting again in the fall. One thing is clear: to teach students safely during a pandemic, more resources will be needed.
 
Those new demands for resources are coinciding with a staggering amount of job losses already happening in the education sector. EPI's new research from economist Elise Gould has found public education job losses in April are already greater than in all of the Great Recession.
 
EPI's economists have also found that if policymakers do nothing to address budget shortfalls for states and local communities, the United States could end 2021 with 5.3 million fewer jobs, with losses in every state.
 
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“As of the latest jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), state and local government employment fell by 981,000, with the vast majority of losses found in local government. And the majority of those local government losses are in the education sector, with a loss of 468,800 jobs in local public school employment alone,” EPI's Elise Gould writes.
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The challenges facing our education system are starting to get more attention; last week, educators testified before a Senate panel about the economic challenges facing our education system. The New York Times outlined some of the costs and challenges facing schools as they reopen in the fall:  “Across the country, school leaders are beginning to roll out plans to welcome more than 50 million students back, which include procuring 50 million masks; flooding schools with nurses, aides and counselors; and staggering schedules to minimize class size.”[1]
 
As the U.S. Senate considers the next (and possibly final) round of COVID-19 response legislation, EPI's work is critical. We are advocating for resources to help our students, educators, and school communities.
 
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Thank you for all you do to fight for an economy and a public education system that works for all of us, not just the wealthy few.
 
Thea Lee
President, Economic Policy Institute
 
[1] “Pandemic-Stricken Schools Tell Senate They Need Help to Reopen,” The New York Times, June 10, 2020
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