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Title: The Inequities of Job Loss and Recovery Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Publication Year: 2020
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Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has spawned devastation across the United States. All segments of the population have been impacted, but people of color have borne the brunt of infections from the coronavirus and deaths from COVID-19. Nationally Latinos and Blacks are contracting the virus at rates three times higher than Whites,1 and Blacks are dying at a rate 3.6 times and Latinos 2.5 times higher than Whites.2 Furthermore, Blacks and Latinos have sustained major setbacks to their economic sustainability. The pandemic led to the loss of approximately 25 million jobs between February and April and a recovery of about 9 million jobs between then and June.3 These losses represent a historically unprecedented level of unemployment and while as of June some areas have exhibited a slow recovery, the near-term prospects for those who have lost jobs is uncertain at best. While the pandemic has affected everyone’s work life, it has done so unequally. Indeed, the rising job loss has been particularly dire for Blacks and Latinos who have experienced exceptionally high levels of unemployment and slow rates of job recovery.4
Url: https://carsey.unh.edu/publication/inequities-job-loss-recovery-amid-COVID-pandemic
Url: https://scholars.unh.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1413&context=carsey
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Authors: Saenz, Rogelio; Sparks, Corey
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Topics: Fertility and Mortality, Health, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Population Health and Health Systems, Race and Ethnicity
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