Linda Butler-Johnson, a 61-year-old widow, hasn’t had steady work for two years, not since she was laid off from her housekeeper job at a Washington, D.C. hotel in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Her rent was paid by a city rental assistance program all last year. But in 2022 she’s on her own, with no steady income.
“It’s always been a pandemic for poor Black people,” says the Rev. Lionel Edmonds, senior pastor at Mt. Lebanon Baptist Church in Washington, “but now it’s expanding and intensified for the working poor.” While the latest jobless reports have been promising, with overall unemployment falling to 3.9 percent, jobless rates for Black workers were at 7.1 percent, says Gary Cunningham, president and CEO of Prosperity Now, a nonprofit group focused on building wealth and strengthening economic power. “Black and Latina women were hit hardest by job losses: over a million Black women had left the labor force entirely as of February 2020 connected to access to child and eldercare.
Those workers had jobs like hotel cooks, housekeepers and dishwashers, earning wages of $24 or $25 an hour, plus benefits, averaging $17,000 annually that included family health insurance and pensions. Since death rates were higher, the full long-term impact of COVID-19 will be much worse, says Ebony Jade Hilton, an expert on health inequities and associate professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at University of Virginia.
Well, that’s what happens when you wait for the government to take care of you. It’s sad.
Oh don't. Another simple comment made that divides.
virus don't care if your black , white or multicolor it will affect all the population .
They. Close. Ranks. In Australia the Koori Elders called covid a white man problem and urged their communities not to get vaxxed yet it became a white man problem when they started dying from it. There's only so much we can do before accepting the choices THEY made for themselves
Again experts think that black people can not look after themselves. Some of smartest people in world black. They are in big company's, Defence Forces, Law , the USA 🇺🇸 even had a black President. Stop degrading these great people. From Australia 🇦🇺
apathybronson Leider.. und das nicht nur mit den Folgen von Covid sondern auch mit den Folgen von Kolonialismus und Sklaverei haben diese Menschen noch immer zu kämpfen.. ja weiße Menschen und ihre angebliche Überlegenheit.. und auch der Klerus guckt nach wie vor Hände reibend zu🤨🤐😤
All their problems are caused by white people, just ask them.
I think is not ' the Black but The yellow, brown , white community , they started to get recovery , all of the people of the world starting to stand up again from this tragedy, ✊✊✊✊
This is expected as the same happened pre-pandemic.
more people die of heart disease. way more. the whole thing was social media hysteria and news media viral contagion thumping people with fear and lowering immunity.
What a load.
Why only black ? What about other colors? We are all in pandemic.?
We know.. we know.. even Covid is racist 🤦♂️
Rodney A Brooks is an activist. The man who wrote the National Geographic article. (That Disney owns)
Beware of giving the CDC free advertising about their SVI. They have a Social Vulnerability Index and I think wanted study subjects. They continue to push the race, ZIP code & 'less vaccinated rate' areas to keep people wondering, apart & wary.
How about all humans
Experts...😆😆😆😆...in what
Humanigen’s Lenzilumab for patients with CRP150. This drug needed to be authorized months ago. It saves black lives substantially greater than current early hospitalized treatments (LIVE-AIR trial, 2021). BlackLivesMatter
I think everyone is struggling. Please stop with the fucking propaganda.
The health inequity causes oppressed communities to suffer more. Additionally, the racist and discrimination has also been a driver for poor healthcare services being provisioned to oppressed communities.
No matter black yellow , pink skins co Our we should always be healthy to face with so many viruses and bacteries in our surroundings
When will the west people do this kind of racism thing? Why separate people based on their skin color? AND STOP USING THE 'WHITE' 'BLACK' WORD TO CALL PEOPLE, DANGIT. If u think white called white because they're light skinned ppl, then how about sino or east asian people?
Suffice to say Microcephaly (procured with herbalism), that en plagued S America clued on the malevolence of Deadpool's cartel. Chemistry between the word T-huge with the track Hit Em Up having been all the craze in Chinatown, theory is that Deadpool was Interpols star receiver.
they got hit hardest by the repetitive lockdowns and mandates that took away their jobs and destroyed our economies and supply chains. we know lockdowns did far more harm than good. many have warned. they ignored it. when will National Geographic report about this?
WTF What Difference is there if your BLACK or WHITE in America! DEMS are RACE BAITERS....Vote RED or we are ALL DEAD!
Haven't gotten over slavery in western black communities, so no shit. For African blacks it's Tuesday. If they know Tuesday.
Who is the pandemic? Serious question. WHO?
“Exerts say”!
Covid doesn't like melanin!? WTH!?
Horseshit.
IiscolourreallyAfactor
weallR
All Americans are recovering slowly. Wtf does everything have to be about race. God damn.
Covid still exists... In case you didn't know...
I helped to complete the Census counting in Philadelphia in 2020. I am from Ohio, and it was appalling to see the general living conditions that were thrust upon their citizens. The entrances to shopping plazas were blocked by large concrete barriers, and bathrooms were locked.
Covid racist AF
Mercon
Why? Scientists can be really cruel in order to achieve a common goal. Or…..
As if it’s any different from everyone else
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