The COVID-19 Crisis Continues to Have Uneven Economic Impact by Race and Ethnicity

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2020
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07/01/2020
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Urban Institute

This blog post focuses on how the COVID-19 pandemic has more severely affected people of color. Although unemployment, housing affordability, food insecurity, access to health insurance has affected the entire country, communities of color have borne a disproportionate burden of the pandemic in terms of economic and health outcomes due to the effects of persistent structural racism.

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