Hispanic women, immigrants, young adults, those with less education hit hardest by COVID-19 job losses
The drop in employment in three months of the COVID-19 recession is more than double the drop effected by the Great Recession over two years.
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The drop in employment in three months of the COVID-19 recession is more than double the drop effected by the Great Recession over two years.
The COVID-19 pandemic sent many on the move to places other than their usual residence – and they may not know where or how to be counted.
For some governments, the debt incurred on COVID-19 relief will add to the considerable red ink already on their ledgers before the pandemic.
37% of those ages 18 to 29 say they moved, someone moved into their home or they know someone who moved because of the outbreak.
The U.S. Black population is growing. At the same time, how Black people self-identify is changing, with increasing shares considering themselves multiracial or Hispanic.
90% of the decrease in employment between February and March arose from positions that could not be teleworked.
World War II service members’ numbers have dwindled from around 939,000 veterans in 2015 to about 300,000 in 2020.
Those who have not responded to the census so far are likely to be from groups the census previously has struggled to count accurately.
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