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An Introduction to the Special Issue

“…Short-term economic shocks-particularly layoffs, job separations, and long-term unemployment-from the pandemic were disproportionately felt by Blacks and African Americans (Townsend Kiernan & Miller, 2021). Long-term challenges for Black and other minority workers go beyond disparate impacts from economic shocks and include broader challenges like discrimination and unequal policing (Bozarth, 2018). There are economic costs to racism (Bostic, 2020).…”