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Title: Protecting Black Workers During the Covid-19 Recession

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Publication Year: 2021

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Abstract: America’s longest economic expansion on record1 came to an abrupt and dramatic end with the arrival of a novel coronavirus in the United States. The first confirmed U.S. case of the new coronavirus disease—COVID-19— occurred in late January 2020. By March, major portions of the American economy had been shut down to prevent the spread of the disease.2 A historically low quarterly Black unemployment rate of 5.6% at the end of 2019 shot up to a very high 16.3% rate in the second quarter of 2020 (Figure 2). Such a large and rapid increase in the Black unemployment rate is unprecedented. What is not uncommon, however, is for African Americans to be hard hit by a recession. While the specifics of the recession are extraordinary, policymakers already have the tools needed to mitigate the damage the recession will cause to Black workers—if they can put aside partisan politics.

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Authors: Austin, Algernon

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Topics: Health, Race and Ethnicity

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