Essential Stories: Black Worker COVID-19 Economic Health Impact Survey
Déjà Thomas, Demetria M. Murphy, Lola Smallwood-Cuevas and Antonia Izuogu
February 28, 2022
Publications,Summary
Essential Stories: Black Worker COVID-19 Economic Health Impact Survey finds that the current economic restructuring triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic is compounding the Black jobs crisis in Southern California. With heightened unemployment, underemployment, and unsafe conditions for a workforce plagued by a long history of systemic racism, researchers find that it will take a decade to address these critical issues if state officials do not intervene sooner.
