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The pandemic class structure is increasingly built around a divide between face-to-face and remote work.
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Job Safety in the Covid-19 Crisis

The pandemic class structure is increasingly built around a divide between face-to-face and remote work. Based on interviews with workers on both sides of this divide, our newest American Voices Project... More
Fragile Families Summer Data Workshop

The Columbia Population Research Center is now accepting applications for a summer workshop designed to familiarize participants with the data in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study. Applications are now being accepted.... More
Administrative Burdens and Inequality

The Russell Sage Foundation is soliciting proposals for an upcoming issue on how administrative burdens contribute to inequality in policy implementation processes and outcomes, and potential solutions to these problems. Proposals are due... More
Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity

Syracuse University’s Maxwell School is accepting applications for a postdoctoral fellowship that will focus on the causes and consequences of food insecurity, food and nutrition support programs and policies, and programs that support low... More
Youth and Young Adults in the Covid-19 Crisis

The American Voices Project is a nationwide study of how people are doing during these difficult times. It’s a first-of-its-kind study that relies on in-depth immersive interviews delivered to a representative sample of people across the... More

	Prime-Age Employment, January 2021	76.4%
	Official Poverty Measure, 2019	10.5%
	Supplemental Poverty Measure, 2019	11.7%
	Deep Poverty (OPM), 2019	4.7%
	90th/10th Percentile of Household Income, 2019	12.6