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Ella Needler

  • Coordinator, Women in Economics Initiative

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Covid Is Hitting Workers Differently Than the 2008 Financial Crisis

Article By Steven Fazzari and Ella Needler | Apr 19, 2021

Unlike the Great Recession, the pandemic has hit women workers harder than men, and disproportionately hurt the job prospects of lower education workers.

US Employment Inequality in the Great Recession and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Paper Working Paper Series | By Steven Fazzari and Ella Needler | Apr 2021

Unlike the Great Recession, the pandemic has hit women workers harder than men, and disproportionately hurt the job prospects of lower education workers

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NPR features INET Working Paper on the racial and gender inequality of the pandemic

News May 4, 2021

“Researchers involved in a new study from Washington University say women could be in trouble financially for years to come because of significant job losses during the crisis. “We have to be somewhat concerned that the larger inequality effects of the current crisis could have these persistent impacts on wages and on career progress in all the groups that are disproportionately affected,” said Steven Fazzari, a professor of economics and sociology at Wash U who co-authored the study.” — Andrea Y. Henderson, St. Louis Public Radio NPR