Pandemic Is Devastating Low-Income Black Households

THURSDAY, Dec. 3, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Low-income Black Americans had more job losses, more difficulty getting food and medicine, and higher levels of debt in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic than their white or Hispanic peers, a new study finds.

"Media coverage has focused on the racially disparate effects of COVID-19 as a disease, but we were interested in the socioeconomic effects of the virus, and whether it tracked a similar pattern," said study co-author Adam Goldstein. He's an assistant professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University, in New Jersey.