Black Americans say coronavirus has hit hard financially, but impact varies by education level, age
Nearly half of Black adults say the economic impact of the pandemic will make achieving their financial goals harder in the long term.
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Nearly half of Black adults say the economic impact of the pandemic will make achieving their financial goals harder in the long term.
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.
The outbreak has dramatically changed Americans’ lives and relationships over the past year. We asked people to tell us about their experiences – good and bad – in living through this moment in history.
A majority of workers in only four out of nine industries studied say that the responsibilities of their job can be done from home.
The charts below allow for comparisons between racial or ethnic groups over time on a range of measures including educational attainment, household income, life expectancy and others. You may select any two groups at a time for comparison.
The higher education pipeline suggests a long path is ahead for increasing diversity, especially in fields like computing and engineering.
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.
38% of parents with children whose K-12 schools closed in the spring said that their child was likely to face digital obstacles in schoolwork.
Between February and June 2020, the share of young adults who are neither enrolled in school nor employed has more than doubled.
64% of parents with children in elementary, middle or high school express at least some concern about their children falling behind.
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