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Economic hardships due to COVID-19

By the COVID-19 Consortium for Understanding the Public’s Policy Preferences Across States

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● Parents with children at home are more likely than respondents without children at home to have experienced all five economic hardships, while women with kids at home are more likely than men with kids at home to have experienced four of the five hardships. The overall gaps range from a low of 4 percentage points for eviction from their home (6% for parents vs. 2% for non-parents), to highs of 11 points for taking pay cuts (26% vs. 17%) and being unable to make a rent or mortgage payment (21% vs. 10%) 

● Economic hardships are fairly evenly distributed across partisan groups and regions of the country. 

● Respondents who report having had COVID-19 (whether diagnosed by a medical professional or otherwise) are more likely than respondents who report not having had had COVID-19 to have suffered a series of five economic hardships we included in the survey, including losing a job, being evicted from their home, being unable to pay rent or their mortgage, taking a pay cut, or having to cut back on work to take care of a child. 

● Hispanics are more likely than other racial/ethnic groups to have experienced all five economic hardships. 

● We find fairly wide variations across the 50 states in the percentages of residents having experienced economic hardships, and no consistent geographic patterns. COVID-related hardships appear to be generally widespread across the country. 

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December
2020
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