COVID-19 Pandemic Continues To Reshape Work in America
Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, roughly six-in-ten U.S. workers who say their jobs can mainly be done from home (59%) are working from home all or most of the time.
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Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, roughly six-in-ten U.S. workers who say their jobs can mainly be done from home (59%) are working from home all or most of the time.
Nearly one-in-five middle-income families report receiving unemployment benefits in 2020.
Nearly half of U.S. adults say the pandemic has driven people in their community apart. Many see a long road to recovery: About one-in-five say life in their community will never get back to the way it was before COVID-19.
Americans have mixed views on the importance of having a degree. 47% say the cost is worth it only if someone doesn’t have to take out loans.
Roughly one-in-five workers say they are very or somewhat likely to look for a new job in the next six months, but only about a third of these workers think it would be easy to find one.
The global middle class consisted of 54 million fewer people in 2020 than the number projected prior to the onset of the pandemic.
Half of adults who say they lost a job due to the coronavirus outbreak are still unemployed.
Only 23% say they have emergency funds that would last them three months.
The higher education pipeline suggests a long path is ahead for increasing diversity, especially in fields like computing and engineering.
About a year since the coronavirus recession began, there are some signs of improvement in the U.S. labor market, and Americans are feeling somewhat better about their personal finances than they were early in the pandemic.
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