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The unemployment rate is very high and millions report that their households did not get enough to eat or that they are behind in paying the rent. We are able to track the extend of this hardship ([link removed]) and have created a new up-to-date tracker.
The data drive home the need for substantial, continued relief measures. The extent and severity of continued hardships like hunger, eviction, and homelessness ([link removed]) will depend on whether such relief is robust and reaches those in need, as well as the trajectory of the pandemic and the pace of economic recovery.
The emerging data show ([link removed]) :
* High rates of hardship. Tens of millions of people are out of work and struggling to afford adequate food and pay the rent. The impacts of children are large.
* Difficulty getting enough food. About 29 million adults – 12.1 percent of all adults in the country – reported that their household sometimes or often didn’t have enough to eat in the last seven days.
* Inability to pay rent or mortgage. An estimated 14.8 million adults who live in rental housing – 1 in 5 renters – were behind on rent. Some 8 million children lived in a household that was behind on rent.
* Unemployment is high. July’s unemployment rate at 10.2 percent is higher than at any point in the Great Recession. The majority of jobs lost in the crisis have been in industries that pay low average wages, with the lowest-paying industries accounting for 51 percent of the jobs from February to July.
* Millions of children facing hardship. Approximately 19 million children, or 1 in 4 children, live in a household that isn’t getting enough to eat, is behind on rent or mortgage payments, or both.
* Hardship is trending upward.
The impacts of the pandemic and economic fallout have been widespread ([link removed]) , but are particularly prevalent among Black, Latino, Indigenous, and immigrant households. These disproportionate impacts reflect harsh, longstanding inequities – often stemming from structural racism – in education, employment, housing, and health care that the current crisis is exacerbating.
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