Color of Covid: The Racial Justice Paradox of Our New Stay-at-Home Economy
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Color of Covid: The Racial Justice Paradox of Our New Stay-at-Home Economy

In what Catherine Powell calls the "color of Covid," the pandemic has highlighted a range of underlying inequalities on race—including on the job front—now exacerbated by the health crisis and the emerging stay-at-home economy.
Marni Bailey, a worker at a group home for the elderly, stands in line outside Riverside University High School to vote in the presidential primary election held amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. April 7, 2020.
Marni Bailey, a worker at a group home for the elderly, stands in line outside Riverside University High School to vote in the presidential primary election held amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. April 7, 2020. Daniel Acker/REUTERS
Blog Post by Catherine Powell
April 10, 2020 11:00 am (EST)

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In what I call the "color of Covid," the pandemic has highlighted a range of underlying inequalities on race—including on the job front—now exacerbated by the health crisis and the emerging stay-at-home economy. Just as Spencer Overton, president of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, has rightly demanded that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention "end its silence on the racial impact of Covid-19" in terms of health and morbidity, so too must we all reconcile—and address—the fact that the black and Latinx communities and workers are bearing the brunt of the pandemic.

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