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 gender wage gap narrows as women move into high-skill jobs and acquire more education. Women are now in the majority in jobs that draw most heavily on either social or fundamental skills.
Here’s how the COVID-19 recession is affecting labor force participation and unemployment among American workers a year after its onset.
The share of unpartnered mothers who are employed and at work has fallen more precipitously than among other parents.
The experiences of several groups of workers in the COVID-19 outbreak vary notably from how they experienced the Great Recession.
90% of the decrease in employment between February and March arose from positions that could not be teleworked.
The official U.S. unemployment rate understated the situation for women, Asian Americans, immigrants and workers without a bachelor’s degree.
The global middle class consisted of 54 million fewer people in 2020 than the number projected prior to the onset of the pandemic.
About half of U.S. adults lived in middle-income households in 2018, according to our new analysis of government data.
There is a growing need for high-skill workers in the U.S., and this has helped to narrow gender disparities in the labor market.
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