Tag: layoffs
It’s been well documented that the COVID recession and layoffs in 2020 were particularly hard on Black, Hispanic, and Latino Americans. But if they had a disabling physical and medical condition, they felt it much more. In a new study examining the cumulative impact of having a disability combined with the disadvantages of being an…
The brief’s key findings are: While older workers have not been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 Recession, they – like their younger counterparts – have experienced layoffs. This study reports the prevalence of the job exits and retirements and how they vary by earnings level, using data from the Current Population Survey. The analysis focuses…
