Rakesh Kochhar

Senior Researcher

Demographics and social trends Hispanic trends

Rakesh Kochhar is a senior researcher at Pew Research Center. He is an expert on trends in employment, income and wealth. His research has focused on the American and global middle classes and the economic well-being of white, black, Hispanic, Asian and immigrant workers. Prior to joining Pew Research Center, he was senior economist at Joel Popkin and Company, where he served as a consultant to government agencies, private firms, international agencies and labor unions. Kochhar received his doctorate in economics from Brown University. He has appeared on numerous media outlets, including NPR, CNN, MSNBC and Fox News. He has testified before Congress and regularly speaks at professional, academic and business conferences.

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Fact TankJune 30, 2020

The official U.S. unemployment rate understated the situation for women, Asian Americans, immigrants and workers without a bachelor’s degree.

Fact TankJune 11, 2020

The experiences of several groups of workers in the COVID-19 outbreak vary notably from how they experienced the Great Recession.

Fact TankJune 9, 2020

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.

Fact TankMay 6, 2020

90% of the decrease in employment between February and March arose from positions that could not be teleworked.

Fact TankApril 23, 2020

More than four-in-ten U.S. businesses with paid employees are in industries likely to be financially affected more deeply by the outbreak.

Fact TankMarch 27, 2020

Nearly one-in-four U.S. workers are employed in the industries most likely to feel an immediate impact from the COVID-19 outbreak.

Fact TankMarch 23, 2020

New and emerging occupations are raising the importance of analytical skills, such as science, mathematics and programming.

Fact TankJanuary 30, 2020

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.

ReportJanuary 30, 2020

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.

ReportJanuary 9, 2020

About six-in-ten U.S. adults say there’s too much economic inequality in the country these days, and among that group, most say addressing it requires significant changes to the country’s economic system, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.