Category: Inequality
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Inequities in Job Recovery During the COVID-19 Pandemic This policy brief provides an update on the employment trends that took place between February 2020 and June 2021.
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COVID-19 | African Americans, COVID-19, Education, Employment, Hispanics, Inequality, Race, Unemployment | Publication |
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New England Has the Highest Increase in Income Disparity in the Nation Income inequality in New England is rising at the highest rate in the nation, this brief finds. Between 1989 and 2004, the region experienced the largest increase in income inequality in the country, due to both growth among top earners and the hollowing out of the middle class caused by significant changes in the nation's economy.
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New Hampshire, Vulnerable Families Research Program | Income, Inequality, New England | Publication |
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The Inequities of Job Loss and Recovery Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic In this policy brief, authors Rogelio Sáenz and Corey Sparks discuss the wide variations in unemployment and the level of job loss during the COVID-19 pandemic across the nation’s demographic groups that have historically suffered disparities in the workforce, including persons of color, women, and immigrants. It is particularly unfortunate that the calamity of the pandemic comes on the heels of major improvements in job prospects that these groups made over the last decade, as the workforce emerged from the Great Recession.
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COVID-19 | African Americans, COVID-19, Employment, Hispanics, Income, Inequality, Race, Unemployment, Women | Publication |