CONGRESS PRESS CALL TODAY: Ahead of June Jobs Report, Clyburn and Economists Highlight Long-Term Impact of Pandemic on Jobs

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 1, 2020

Contact:
Kirsten Allen: (510) 913-1837

*Updated*
Ahead of June Jobs Report, Clyburn and Economists Highlight Long-Term Impact of Pandemic on Jobs

Washington, D.C. (July 1, 2020) — Today, Wednesday, July 1, 2020, at 2:15 p.m., Rep. James E. Clyburn, Chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, and three renowned economists will hold a press call to discuss the forthcoming jobs report and the need for strong federal action to address the ongoing jobs crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

Chairman Clyburn will also address the Trump Administration’s unsupported assertions about the economy and its refusal, despite four decades of bipartisan precedent, to provide Congress with basic economic projections.

On June 18, Chairman Clyburn sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Acting Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Tomas Philipson, and Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget Russ Vought, demanding the release of key unemployment and economic projections to help Congress seek solutions to help struggling Americans and prevent further economic damage.

At a Select Subcommittee hearing the same day, witnesses testified that economic recovery will not happen until the federal government enacts a comprehensive plan to contain the pandemic and open the economy in a safe, sustainable way. They also testified that the failure to continue federal support for the unemployed over the next several months would cause even more harm to our nation’s economy.

WHAT:

Press Call on the Unemployment Crisis

WHEN:

2:15 p.m. ET on Wednesday, July 1, 2020

WHO:

Rep. James E. Clyburn
Chairman, Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis

William E. Spriggs, PhD
Chief Economist, AFL-CIO
Professor, Howard University Department of Economics

Jason Furman, PhD
Professor, Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy, Harvard University

Wendy Edelberg, PhD
Director, The Hamilton Project, and Senior Fellow in Economic Studies
The Brookings Institution

RSVP:

Please RSVP to Kirsten.allen@mail.house.gov. Conference line will be provided upon RSVP.