Jesse Bennett

Earnings overall have held steady through the pandemic in part because lower-wage workers experienced steeper job losses.

With the economic recovery gaining momentum, unemployment among immigrants is about equal with that of U.S.-born workers.

We’ve made adjustments to account for differences in purchasing power by survey respondents’ household size and geography.

Roughly 9.6 million U.S. workers lost their jobs during the COVID-19 downturn; only about 2.6 million EU workers lost jobs in this period.

Here’s how the COVID-19 recession is affecting labor force participation and unemployment among American workers a year after its onset.

About four-in-ten unemployed workers had been out of work for more than six months in February 2021, about double the share in February 2020.

The charts below allow for comparisons between racial or ethnic groups over time on a range of measures including educational attainment, household income, life expectancy and others. You may select any two groups at a time for comparison.

Half of adults who say they lost a job due to the coronavirus outbreak are still unemployed.

About half of U.S. adults lived in middle-income households in 2018, according to our new analysis of government data.

Three-in-ten Millennials live with a spouse and child, compared with 40% of Gen Xers at a comparable age.