evidence: The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the work of U.S. workers unequally. This post looks at how those job disruptions have affected key groups, based on the August 2020 jobs report (that is, the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Employment Situation, see the news release). [...] - African American and Hispanic workers had a higher share of their jobs disrupted than did white workers. Along with high death rates from COVID-19, these two groups of American workers have seen particularly dire labor market impacts from COVID-19. [...] - The share of African American workers retaining a tie to an employer is the smallest (only 56 percent) of any group. The share of disrupted African American workers who want a job, but who have not actively looked for work yet (nineteen percent), is the highest of all the demographic groups. This suggests the presence of continuing barriers to job searches for this group.