About half of the state’s workforce is employed in sectors considered essential during the pandemic, including nurses, police officers, manufacturing and delivery drivers, and a disproportionate share lives downstate. Face-to-face workers, who hold jobs like restaurant servers and hair stylists, make up a quarter of the workforce and are disproportionately made up of blacks and Latinos. Remote workers are more likely to be white and living in Chicago.
Charting structural inequities: How lowest-paid, least-secure jobs also tend to have highest risk for COVID-19
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