Introduction: The Socioeconomic Impacts of COVID-19

Unemployment Rates

Source: BLS 2021a.

Note: Race-ethnicity (sixteen and older); educational attainment (twenty-five and older).

Proportion Indicating That Someone in Household Lost a Job Since March 13, 2020

Source: Authors’ tabulations based on U.S. Census Bureau Household Pulse Survey (U.S. Census Bureau 2022).

Total Employment

Source: BLS 2022.

Respondents Not Working Because Children Are at Home

Source: Authors’ tabulations based on U.S. Census Bureau Household Pulse Survey (U.S. Census Bureau 2022).

Note: Respondents between eighteen and fifty; children at home and not in school or daycare.

Quarterly Wage and Salary and Personnel Transfer Income

Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis 2021.

Respondents Indicating Not Enough Food

Source: Authors’ tabulations based on U.S. Census Bureau Household Pulse Survey (U.S. Census Bureau 2022).

Homeowner Households Indicating Mortgage Payments Up to Date

Source: Authors’ tabulations based on U.S. Census Bureau Household Pulse Survey (U.S. Census Bureau 2022).

Renter Households Indicating Rent Payments Up to Date

Source: Authors’ tabulations based on U.S. Census Bureau Household Pulse Survey (U.S. Census Bureau 2022).

Homicides in the United States

Source: FBI n.d.