May 16, 2022
Anna Crockett and Xiaohan Zhang
When the pandemic first struck and many child care centers closed, ECE worker unemployment spiked. Now that two years have passed since the onset of COVID-19 in the United States, to what extent has the industry recovered?
March 21, 2022
Xiaohan Zhang and Jason Saving
Despite the Earned Income Tax Credit’s many benefits, a large percentage of qualified workers do not claim it.
February 25, 2022
Emily Ryder Perlmeter
As more Texas mortgages exit forbearance, ZIP codes with larger vulnerability will be at particular risk for financial stress.
February 23, 2022
Anna Crockett
Education and employment trends suggest that the number of 16–24-year-olds disconnected from both work and school—known as opportunity youth—has grown during the pandemic.
January 24, 2022
Anna Crockett and Jason Saving
Pandemic-related hardships likely contributed to a surge in the number of young people disconnected from school at both the secondary and postsecondary levels.
January 5, 2022
Fope Idowu
Family Pathways works with parenting students enrolled in high-demand degree programs at Austin Community College to promote economic mobility for lower-income families.
December 9, 2021
Anna Crockett and Jason Saving
Unemployment rates spiked for young adults in the initial months of the COVID recession. Since that time, younger members of this cohort (ages 16-19) have substantially recovered, while older members (ages 20-24) continue to see unemployment rates well above pre-COVID levels.
November 29, 2021
Emily Ryder Perlmeter
Using national- and state-representative data from small business owners from the Federal Reserve System’s Small Business Credit Survey, we found that small business owners of color were in greater need of financial support than their white-owned counterparts, but they successfully accessed the PPP less frequently.
November 15, 2021
Jane Santa Cruz
As a participant in the Dallas Fed's Advance Together initiative, the Education Partnership of the Permian Basin is accelerating a collective approach to addressing education, workforce and quality-of-life needs.
July 15, 2021
Alex Johnson
Manufacturing jobs present the potential for many workers to make a living wage.