Tens of millions of people are either officially unemployed or out of work as a result of the pandemic, and EPI research reveals that those getting hit hardest are women and people of color. Each month the pandemic persists, it becomes clearer: COVID-19 is widening racial inequities in education, health, and the workforce.
 
Valerie Wilson, EPI's director of the Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy testified before Congress recently about the dire ramifications of the collapsing economy, paying particular attention to race, ethnicity and gender.
. For example, in February just 1 in 20 (4.9%) of Hispanic women were unemployed. Three months later after the pandemic shuttered large sections of the U.S. economy—nearly 1 in 5 Hispanic women were jobless, or 19%.
 
Take a look at and share this graph, which shows skyrocketing unemployment rates broken down by race, ethnicity and gender.