Two occupations hard hit during COVID had low benefits, earnings even before pandemic. Learn more in this America Counts story.



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How Food Service, Transportation Workers Fared Before Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has had widespread and uneven effects on U.S. workers, resulting in changes in employment, schedules and hours worked. That also meant changes in earnings and benefits.

Especially hard-hit were workers in food preparation and serving related occupations and in transportation. As recent studies have shown, lockdowns and other safety measures led to declines in full-time, year-round employment and increased unemployment.

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While the impact of COVID-19 on jobs has yet to be fully explored, a recently released Census Bureau report can serve as a pre-pandemic benchmark for changes in job characteristics across occupation groups.

Here, 2018 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) data was used to highlight job characteristics for the two groups whose jobs and income would be among the most disrupted by the pandemic: food preparation and serving related occupations, and transportation occupations.

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