Articles
- Lend an Ear: Reassessing Mortgage Lending
- Skill Mismatches within Job Sectors
- The Jobs Picture in the Recovery
- Rethinking Workforce Development
- April 26 Webinar Focuses on Online Tools for Consumers
- April 20 Deadline: Small Business Owners Survey
- April 25 Webinar Highlights Remittances
- May 1: Growing Economies in Indian Country Summit
- "Right Sizing" Efforts Can Have Community Benefit
- SE Experts Discuss Implications of Constrained Budgets
- The Great Immigration Turnaround: New Facts and Old Rhetoric - February 22, 2012
- Recent Fed Board Study on Mobile Banking
- Regional Community Land Trust Conference in Durham, North Carolina
- Can the Jobs Gap Be Filled through Temporary Public-sector Positions?
- Online Compendium Focuses on Employment and Related Topics
- Lecture Series Features Fed Chairman
- March 21: Strategic Use of Data to Transform Community Investment
Departments
Subscribe Online
Who Is the Most Unemployed? Factors Affecting Joblessness
A severe recession often leaves few demographic cohorts unscathed, but some groups are being hit harder than others. What groups bore the brunt of the most recent economic downturn, and how do its effects differ from those of past downturns? In a recent EconSouth article, staff writer Lela Somoza provides information on which demographic groups were hardest hit by the 2007–2009 recession and addresses how these groups have fared in the recovery.