Economic Roundtable

07/07/2025

Medicaid beneficiaries, reconsidered...

Big employers such as Walmart, Amazon and McDonald's stick taxpayers with the bill for healthcare and food for their employees. The GOP budget will make life harder for those workers.

02/12/2025

Next week, Los Angeles is counting our unhoused neighbors, and if you haven’t registered to volunteer, there is still time. Invite your friends, family, and colleagues to join us in this meaningful effort.

The Homeless Count helps us gain a clearer picture of homelessness in our community and helps decision-makers direct services and develop new and innovative programs.

https://count.lahsa.org/pages/volunteer-registration

09/13/2024

Federal funding for maintaining and enhancing the nation's long-running economic and labor market data series should be a no-brainer. These surveys include the US Bureau of Labor Statistics' Current Population Survey, the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey, and so on. We all rely upon this information everyday, knowingly or not.

Accurate U.S. Census Bureau data are essential to understanding how Americans are doing financially; a lack of proper investment puts it at risk.

07/18/2024

Sudden health problems can sometimes lead to homelessness, such as for construction workers...

People end up on the streets of L.A. for many reasons. One of the most tragic and predictable is an inability to keep doing grueling physical work.

05/10/2024

Deaths among homeless residents in Los Angeles, 2022

A record number of unhoused people died

01/23/2024

Insightful data on the City of Los Angeles' progress on reducing homelessness. The region is carrying out its HUD-mandated homeless count this week.

Here's how Mayor Bass did on her campaign promises on homelessness during her first year in office.

10/24/2023

Stories and art about the economic and environmental impacts of large warehouses in the Inland Empire and SoCal coastal counties, echoed ERt's own recent research...

The multimedia art exhibit traces the region's complex evolution from agriculture to military base to vast rows of warehouses.

08/10/2023

Happy to hear this news coming from LMU's Westchester campus. After carrying out research into local university service workers just before the pandemic, the need for better wages, full-time hours, reliable schedules, and decent benefits was apparent.

Loyola Marymount Workers Win Increased Minimum Wage August 5, 2023/0 Comments/in Blog /by Clayton SinyaiA guest contribution from CLN Member Anna Harrison On March 30, 2022, corresponding with Loyola Marymount University’s annual Cesar Chavez Day, when Facilities Management [FM] workers are feted ...

06/09/2023

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New census data reveals over a quarter of U.S. households had solo occupants in 2020, more than three times the 1940 estimate and more than twice the 1960 level.

05/31/2023

Grocery-retailer consolidation is damaging our food system, stifling innovation and making everything more expensive.

05/03/2023

Upcoming panel on "What’s Driving L.A.’s Housing Crisis?"

Anna Scott is joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times journalist Doug Smith, fellow Los Angeles Times writer Benjamin Oreskes, and award-winning journalist and podcaster Ethan Ward to add clarity and context around the topic.

05/02/2023

Economic Roundtable released a new report today about California's fast food workers, and the vulnerable housing situation that part-time hours + low wages creates for many of them.

In a town hall-style meeting in downtown Los Angeles Tuesday, fast-food workers discussed how many of them are facing homelessness. The workers said their situation is not something to be ashamed o…