COVID-19 began spreading at the end of 2019. Our posts cover the ensuing drop in employment; differential impacts on workers by income, race, ethnicity, gender, education, and parental status; unemployment insurance and other social supports to assist those impacted; the mounting red ink on federal and state budgets; and ramifications in areas ranging from developing countries, to education, the environment, and beyond.
March 29, 2022
The fiscal condition of state and local governments proved far less dire than forecast at the pandemic’s outset. How did predictions end up being so off target?
March 27, 2022
A discussion with Pamela Meyerhofer (Montana State University), on the ways in which the economic impact of COVID has differed across groups of people.
March 22, 2022
Frontline workers during the COVID pandemic have been disproportionately comprised of less educated and minority workers, especially Hispanics, and immigrants.
March 20, 2022
Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University joins Michael Klein to discuss the far-reaching implications of working from home.
February 2, 2022
U.S. house prices shot up by 20% in real terms between February 2020 and September 2021. But the degree of appreciation has varied greatly across cities.
November 12, 2021
Consumers are experiencing the highest annual grocery price increases in a decade and the highest annual restaurant price increases since the early 1980s.
October 7, 2021
COVID supply disruptions, evident in product shortages at the retail level, were an important driver of inflation a year after the start of the crisis.
September 19, 2021
Tom Frieden, former Director of the CDC, joins Michael Klein for a discussion of the factors that make COVID-19 particularly deadly, the importance of good governance in slowing its spread, and the need for better primary care, especially in underserved communities.
July 6, 2021
Julia Coronado, president and founder of MacroPolicy Perspectives, joins EconoFact Chats this week to describe how she and her team organize their thinking and analysis of the U.S. economy at a time when the pandemic has disrupted the conventional models and rules of thumb that forecasters traditionally use.