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DOI	10.1073/pnas.2020685118
	Pandemic precarity: COVID-19 is exposing and exacerbating inequalities in the American heartland
	Perry B.L.; Aronson B.; Pescosolido B.A.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	00278424
卷号	118 期号:8
英文摘要	Crises lay bare the social fault lines of society. In the United States, race, gender, age, and education have affected vulnerability to COVID-19 infection. Yet, consequences likely extend far beyond morbidity and mortality. Temporarily closing the economy sent shock waves through communities, raising the possibility that social inequities, preexisting and current, have weakened economic resiliency and reinforced disadvantage, especially among groups most devastated by the Great Recession. We address pandemic precarity, or risk for material and financial insecurity, in Indiana, where manufacturing loss is high, metro areas ranked among the hardest hit by the Great Recession nationally, and health indicators stand in the bottom quintile. Using longitudinal data (n = 994) from the Person to Person Health Interview Study, fielded in 2019–2020 and again during Indiana’s initial stay-at-home order, we provide a representative, probability-based assessment of adverse economic outcomes of the pandemic. Survey-weighted multivariate regressions, controlling for preexisting inequality, find Black adults over 3 times as likely as Whites to report food insecurity, being laid off, or being unemployed. Residents without a college degree are twice as likely to report food insecurity (compared to some college), while those not completing high school (compared to bachelor’s degree) are 4 times as likely to do so. Younger adults and women were also more likely to report economic hardships. Together, the results support contentions of a Matthew Effect, where pandemic precarity disproportionately affects historically disadvantaged groups, widening inequality. Strategically deployed relief efforts and longer-term policy reforms are needed to challenge the perennial and unequal impact of disasters. © 2021 National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
英文关键词	COVID-19 pandemic; Disparities; Economic insecurity; Racial and ethnic inequality; Socioeconomic inequality
语种	英语
scopus关键词	adolescent; adult; age; aged; ancestry group; clinical trial; economics; epidemiology; ethnology; female; health disparity; human; male; middle aged; pandemic; poverty; therapy; United States; Adolescent; Adult; Age Factors; Aged; Continental Population Groups; COVID-19; Female; Health Status Disparities; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Pandemics; Poverty; SARS-CoV-2; United States
来源期刊	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/180522
作者单位	Department of Sociology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Perry B.L.,Aronson B.,Pescosolido B.A.. Pandemic precarity: COVID-19 is exposing and exacerbating inequalities in the American heartland[J],2021,118(8).
APA	Perry B.L.,Aronson B.,&Pescosolido B.A..(2021).Pandemic precarity: COVID-19 is exposing and exacerbating inequalities in the American heartland.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,118(8).
MLA	Perry B.L.,et al."Pandemic precarity: COVID-19 is exposing and exacerbating inequalities in the American heartland".Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118.8(2021).