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As communities begin to build back their finances after the pandemic, this company wants to close the gap in equitable lending.

The data show a jobs recession that was hardest on women without college degrees and Black and Hispanic women, and was pretty tough on men without college degrees and Hispanic men too.

Economists now expect hiring to recover along with increased immunizations.

In the coming months, as more Americans get inoculated and virus cases fall, economic activity is poised to resume and job cuts may decline further.

Less jobs were lost to the pandemic than expected, but unemployment levels still haven't recovered.

Experts see powerful employment gains over the next three years that evade the curse of past recessions. If they’re right, millions of Americans will leap back into the workforce as soon as vaccines against the coronavirus roll out.

Prolonged unemployment harms physical and mental well-being, traps workers in poverty and increases family stress, according to studies.

In the first episode of the five-part documentary series, we look at how disparities in net worth and mortgage discrimination impact Black home ownership — and why it's impossible to close the gaps without attacking systemic racism.

This five-part series is a comprehensive effort to explain the racial discrimination Black Americans face in our financial system.

Persistently high jobless claims, along with this week’s announcements of tens of thousands of layoffs, indicate widespread economic pain.