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from Challenger Gray and Christmas
In a strange NFL season with postponed games, fan-less stadiums, COVID cases, and a Tampa Bay Buccaneers Championship, the Bucs will host the Kansas City Chiefs at their own stadium on February 7th. The distraction of the big game is likely more than welcome to hundreds of millions of Americans, football fans or not, according to one workplace authority. Nearly 9 million fewer Americans have jobs now than during the Super Bowl last year. Record numbers are filing initial unemployment claims every week, and 2.4 million more people want jobs now versus this time last year. This is on top of the extreme pandemic fatigue and subsequent burnout, especially for employed people who are now caring for parents and children full time. The mental strain on Americans is overwhelming, said Andrew Challenger, Senior Vice President of global outplacement and business and executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc.
The Household Shift From Paid Work To Home Production
from the St Louis Fed
The recession-induced by the COVID-19 pandemic triggered sharp employment losses. With the loss of paid work, U.S. workers shifted to doing other things in their spare time. How did this affect home production, which includes activities such as child care, meal preparation, laundry, and shopping?
St. Louis Fed Research Officer Oksana Leukhina and Zhixiu Yu, a Ph.D. candidate in economics at the University of Minnesota, explored this question in a
Regional Economist article. Today’s post examines the extent to which American workers typically shift their time to home production when they lose their jobs or their working hours are reduced. Tuesday’s post will look at the estimated number and value of hours that shifted to home production activities because of the declining employment during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jessie Kemmick Pintor, PhD, assistant professors in the Dornsife School of Public Health, and colleagues detail the effects of structural racism on the health of immigrants in the U.S. The authors provide evidence that chronic exposure to racism leads to worsening health over time among immigrants, particularly among those who are Black or Latinx. The authors look at allostatic load – a comprehensive measure of the body’s response to stressors during a lifespan – in both immigrants and non-immigrants across racial/ethnic groups to put a spotlight on health disparities among groups.
The authors studied the 2005-2018 National Health and Nutrition Examination survey and found that allostatic load increases with age among all groups, but at much steeper rates among Black immigrants of both genders and Latina immigrants. They argue that these findings should inform new laws to close these gaps and address structural inequities, such as access to safe housing, education, health ca