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.
January 31, 2023
There are substantial differences in the declines in life expectancy for Native Americans when one expands the group to include those who identify as multiracial.
August 1, 2022
Food inflation has been one of the drivers of inflation. While it has begun to slow in developing countries, it remains historically high in the U.S. and eurozone.
June 16, 2022
About a tenth of the world’s population is facing hunger. Hunger’s dramatic increase is the result of a perfect storm of conflict, COVID-19, climate, and cost.
June 7, 2022
Spring 2022 enrollment was worse than expected given trends toward more normal college operations. A continued decline would compound challenges facing many colleges.
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 22, 2022
Frontline workers during the COVID pandemic have been disproportionately comprised of less educated and minority workers, especially Hispanics, and immigrants.
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.