Almost one in six Americans (16%) were unable to pay their rent in June due to the Covid-19 crisis, and almost one in three (30.6%) are concerned about the July deadline, said Friday, July 16, the census office, according to a survey of 73.8 million people, between July 2 and 7.
Almost half of Americans have experienced a cut in wages since the implementation of massive containment measures in the United States in mid-March, according to the Census Bureau.
The pandemic has made tens of millions of Americans lose their jobs and 32 million were unemployed at the end of June, compared to 1.6 million a year earlier, according to figures released Thursday by the labor department. The United States has just over 328 million inhabitants.
New contamination record
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 United States, the most mourning country in the world, recorded a new contamination record on Thursday with more than 68,000 cases in twenty-four hours. Since the end of June, the United States has been facing a spectacular surge in the pandemic, particularly in the South and West, the number of contaminations detected every twenty-four hours systematically exceeding 60,000 in the past week, or approximately two. times more than in April, at the height of confinement.
The state of Florida on Thursday recorded a 24-hour death toll with 156 dead, confirming that it had become the epicenter of the epidemic in the country.
