Tag: laid off

It is well established that losing a job hurts long-run earnings, but it is unclear whether the impact varies by race. On the one hand, displaced Black workers may be hindered relative to their White counterparts due to discrimination in hiring…

Workers who contracted long COVID or suffered the most severe symptoms of the virus felt a big impact on their families’ finances from the resulting disruptions to their work, researchers at the University of South Carolina and Montana State University found. When the adults in families with children experienced long COVID or got so sick…