CHN’S COVID-19 Watch: Tracking Hardship June 5
June 5, 2020
Needless death afflicts this nation. As racism caused the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and so many others, so are death, sickness, and hardship from the pandemic disproportionately inflicted by race. Black Americans are dying from COVID-19 at more than twice the rate of Whites. Blacks and Latinx are more likely to be unemployed, more likely to go without food, and more likely to be unable to pay rent. With levels of joblessness far higher than during the Great Recession, and those without jobs far more likely to be uninsured, federal solutions and investments remain essential. The Senate must join the House in enacting COVID recovery legislation similar to the House’s HEROES act.
Households in which someone lost employment income since March 13 (through week ending May 26):
Respectively, for Latinx, Black, Asian, White households. Tweet this.
Unemployment rate for May, for individuals: 13.3% (down from 14.7% in April)
Highest unemployment rate for Great Recession: 9.6%
- For Blacks: 16.8%
- For Latinx: 17.6%
- For Whites: 12.4%
- For Asians: 15%
- For Youth, 16-19: 29.9% Tweet this.
Percentage of people who sometimes or often did not have enough to eat in the past 7 days:
- Black (21%)
- Hispanic/Latinx (16%)
- White (6%)
2X the Great Recession
Loss of state and local government jobs from March to May, of which close to 1 million were in education.
That’s twice the job loss (750,000) from the Great Recession. Tweet this.
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