The U.S. Census Bureau’s Service Annual Survey (SAS) provides a detailed look at estimated revenue of employer firms for select indoor and outdoor recreation industries affected by COVID-19 and a glimpse into their recovery. Many fitness, recreation and other social activities moved outdoors when…
Category: COVID
About 1 in 5 Parents Relied on a Relative for Childcare
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the lives of the nation’s estimated 62.7 million parents with children under age 18 as access to paid, unpaid or subsidized child care and school supervision ended for many. The recent end of pandemic relief funds…
School Enrollment Rates of 3- and 4-year-olds Returned to Pre-Pandemic Levels in 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic transformed many parents’ home and work lives, with some changes like shuttered schools and remote learning leading to a drop in enrollment of children ages 3 and 4. But new data show enrollment has started to bounce…
Americans’ Concern Over COVID-19 Rises
COVID-19 infections are on the rise with new variants seemingly being announced every other week, Americans are becoming less confident in the direction over the coronavirus situation is going. They are now slightly less likely to believe the pandemic is…
Bipartisan Support for Negative COVID Tests For Travelers From China
Since the end of its controversial and strict “zero-COVID” policy, there have been a surge of new cases in China, causing the United States to implement a new rule requiring travelers from China to have a negative COVID test before…
Worry About Catching COVID-19 Lowest since June 2021
Only 28% of Americans say they are “very” or “somewhat worried” they will catch COVID-19. The lowest Gallup has recorded since the summer of 2021. The finding from the Oct 11-19 COVID-19 probability-based web panel survey come as a new…
Thanksgiving Dinners Back On After Pandemic Pause
ButcherBox, a subscriptions service focused on meats, recently conducted a study that revealed 32% of Americans expect their Thanksgiving gatherings to be larger this year than last. Nearly 30% of respondents said they will be hosting 10-19 people this year.…
COVID Conspiracies Leads to Believing Other Conspiracy Theories
New research has found that the belief that the Coronavirus Pandemic is a hoax, that its severity as exaggerated for other reasons, is a ‘gateway’ to believing in conspiracy theories in general. People who reported greater belief in various conspiracies…
Pandemic Made Half of Americans Reset Priorities
Artemis Strategy Group conducted a study completed in August 2022 focused on the lasting impact of the Sars-COV-2 pandemic. They found that 51% of Americans said that the forced pause the COVID-19 pandemic created the reset they needed to do…
Pandemic Disrupted Labor Markets but Had Modest Impact on Retirement Timing
The COVID-19 pandemic’s disruption of labor markets was massive, but it had only a modest impact on peoples’ retirement timing, according to recently released data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2021 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). The SIPP collected…