From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/):
EPI’s State of Working America series 2020 reports show that no matter how you look at the data, low-wage workers suffered the most during the pandemic recession. In the most recent report, EPI researchers show that the lowest-paid workers in the hardest-hit private-sector industry—leisure and hospitality—suffered the greatest job losses in 2020. In the public sector, service workers such as school cafeteria workers and buildings and grounds workers also lost jobs at a disproportionate rate.
State of Working America 2020 employment report
Within the worst-hit sectors, workers in the lowest average wage and lowest average hour occupations were hit the worst and remain most damaged a year later. In leisure and hospitality, Black women, Hispanic women, and Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (both men and women) saw disproportionate losses. Read the report
State of Working America 2020 wages report
Wages grew historically fast between 2019 and 2020—but not for the right reasons. Wages grew largely because more than 80% of the 9.6 million net jobs lost in 2020 were jobs held by wage earners in the bottom 25% of the wage distribution. Read the report
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