As the unemployment rate soared in April to its highest levels since the Great Depression, with 14.7 percent of workers without jobs, the coronavirus shutdown fell unequally on Americans according to age, gender, educational attainment as well as race.
Democracy Dies in Darkness
This is how economic pain is distributed in America
Job losses due to the coronavirus shutdown have fallen unequally on Americans according to age, gender, educational attainment and race
By Tracy Jan
May 9, 2020 at 6:00 a.m. EDT