Experts say it will take longer for Black communities to recover from the pandemic’s public health and economic impact
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.
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