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Black workers in Georgia who lost jobs during the pandemic were more likely than White ones to be denied unemployment benefits and suffered disproportionately when the state withdrew early from a temporary federal program.

Those conclusions, drawn from a Bloomberg News analysis of more than 2 million claims, tell a bigger story about what happened to many of America's most vulnerable workers: A historic government response pushed more than $860 billion through a system designed more for Ford and General Electric than Uber and TaskRabbit. [...]

The story of how and why some workers were left behind reveals long-running structural inequities in the U.S. For many of the almost 317,000 Black workers rejected for benefits in Georgia, the economic consequences remain all too present.

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