Tag: pandemic

Caregiver with senior African-American man in kitchen

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…

Young woman in doctor's office

Birth rates in the United States have been declining since the Great Recession, and many thought that COVID-19 might accelerate this decline.  And, indeed, birth rates early in the pandemic did drop substantially.  However, when the economy swiftly recovered from COVID, birth rates in 2021 ticked up for the first time since 2014. The question…