In this blog, we conduct an exercise to determine the potential consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic on near-term labor market outcomes. This is not a forecast, but an attempt to provide some discipline around potential bounds of the number of jobs impacted by the crisis. We estimate that between nine and 26 million jobs are potentially affected,1 with a best guess of around 15 million. If t... Read More

This and other transcripts on this site have been provided by a third-party service. The video replay should be considered the definitive record of the event. Experts examined the integration of neighborhoods by race and Hispanic ethnicity—and the challenges that existing housing policies and mindsets pose to achieving it—during a recent Chicago Fed Economic Mobility... Read More