As the pandemic persisted, financial pressures became a bigger factor in why Americans decided to move
Recent pandemic migrants are more likely than those who moved earlier in the outbreak to have relocated due to financial stress.
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Recent pandemic migrants are more likely than those who moved earlier in the outbreak to have relocated due to financial stress.
The official U.S. unemployment rate understated the situation for women, Asian Americans, immigrants and workers without a bachelor’s degree.
More than four-in-ten U.S. businesses with paid employees are in industries likely to be financially affected more deeply by the outbreak.
90% of the decrease in employment between February and March arose from positions that could not be teleworked.
The last year the Postal Service recorded any profit was 2006, and its cumulative losses since then totaled $83.1 billion as of March 31.
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.
U.S. military veterans and their families have consistently had higher standards of living than non-veterans over the past 40 years.
Nearly one-in-four U.S. workers are employed in the industries most likely to feel an immediate impact from the COVID-19 outbreak.
Black adults are particularly likely to say slavery continues to have an impact: More than eight-in-ten say this is the case.
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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