Nearly one in six Americans (16%) couldn’t pay their rent in June because of the Coronavirus crisis, and nearly one in three (30.6%) is worried about the July deadline , according to a survey conducted by the Census Bureau among 73.8 million people. Nearly half of Americans have seen wages cut since massive containment measures were put in place in the United States in mid-March, according to the Census Bureau.
This study, carried out every week since the end of March, should make it possible to measure “the way in which people’s lives have been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic”, details the Census Bureau on its website.
Some figures are obtained from questionnaires sent to individuals, others by compiling the data collected by the various federal agencies.
The pandemic has cost tens of millions of Americans their jobs, and 32 million were registered as unemployed at the end of June, up from 1.6 million a year earlier, according to figures released Thursday by the Department of Labor. Report last night in the 20h of France 2.
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