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How much unemployment is there? Depends on your wage bracket.

Jan 14, 2021
Industries like hospitality, which tend to be low wage and employ more Black and Latinx workers, have been particularly hard hit by the pandemic.
People wait at a food-distribution site in New York City. Food insecurity is a painful effect of the "K-shaped recovery."
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