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Nationwide decline in housing affordability hits lower-income areas of Columbus
Figure 1, titled "2019 to 2024 HPI Growth for Columbus and other medium MSA," is captioned " Housing affordability changes across urban-rural and income spectrums show affordability worsening most in the lower-income urban center of Columbus." The y-axis says “Five-year average growth,” and the x-axis says “Metropolitan area size”.
Income growth and housing affordability in Austin
A bar chart showing both five-year average Zillow home price growth and age-adjusted median income growth for 25 to 44 year-olds from 2019 through 2024, by urbanicity classification, for the MSA of Austin, the average of Other Texas MSA’s, and the average Other US MSA’s with Populations Between One to Five Million.
Chicago housing affordability dynamics
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Worker outcomes through August 2023 by income and race
The labor market remains strong, but high inflation has partially eroded the purchasing power of nominal income gains. Indicators of how much incomes have (or haven’t) increased relative to consumer prices since the pandemic—and which workers are faring best—can vary significantly across public data sources, as discussed in a recent report from the Hamilton Project1. Part of the measurement challenge is a result of pandemic era economic volatility.
The Dynamics and Demographics of U.S. Household Crypto-Asset Use
Finding One: Most crypto users made their first transactions during spikes in crypto-asset prices. The share of the population that have ever transferred funds into a crypto-related account tripled during the COVID-19 pandemic, rising from a cumulative 3 percent prior to 2020 to 13 percent as of June 2022. See box below for background on how we track crypto-related flows.
Racial Income Inequality Dynamics
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Op-ed: Weighing the options to continue or end expanded unemployment benefits
Zero Creatives | Image Source | Getty Images The response to Covid-19 has marked a historic expansion in the size and coverage of government support for people experiencing unemployment. As we near the end of expanded federal unemployment insurance benefits, state governors now face a choice of whether to continue them. To that point, the Biden administration urged states with high unemployment to use American Rescue Plan funds to continue unemployment assistance to workers past Sept. 6.
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