How Labor Organizing Can Help Women and People of Color Unemployed Due to COVID-19

'As the health crisis continues, COVID-19 has also pushed us over the cliff toward an economic crisis, and we’re still bracing for final the impact. The workers who are affected the most are, of course, those working hospitality and service jobs. And there’s something else striking about who’s hit the hardest, though it’s no surprise to economists, who’ve seen this trend again and again: "We know that people of color and women are the most likely to have lost their jobs — unemployment is hitting women and people of color even harder," Professor Lane Windham, associate director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University, said. Aaron Ross Coleman, an Ida B. Wells Fellow at the Type Media Institute covering race and economics, and Professor Windham join The Takeaway to discuss.'