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NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Longstanding inequalities in the U.S. labor market have worsened amid the coronavirus pandemic with working from home fuelling the divide, according to a Gallup report released on Wednesday.
Gallup surveyed more than 7,700 U.S. adults in the final quarter of 2020, with the findings showing that pandemic-related job losses skewed heavily towards Hispanic and Black Americans, as well as those with lower education and income levels.
More than 40% of Americans whose 2019 incomes were in the bottom 20%, multiracial and Hispanic workers, and those without a college degree, said they had been laid off during the pandemic compared with 31% of overall respondents.