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.
Black and Hispanic workers remain underrepresented in STEM jobs compared with their share of the U.S. workforce.
The higher education pipeline suggests a long path is ahead for increasing diversity, especially in fields like computing and engineering.
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.
A median of 62% of adults across the 14 countries surveyed this summer generally believe most people can be trusted.
Between February and June 2020, the share of young adults who are neither enrolled in school nor employed has more than doubled.
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.
The educational attainment of recently arrived Latino immigrants in the U.S. has reached its highest level in at least three decades.
The 30-year low reflects in part tight labor markets and falling unemployment, but also higher shares of young women at work or in school.
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