scholarly journals Remittances from Mexican migrants in the United States during the time of COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-153
Author(s):  
Rodolfo Garcia Zamora ◽  
Selene Gaspar Olvera
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Unemployment Rate ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Recovery ◽  
Mexican Migrants ◽  
The Great Recession

Following the Great Recession of 2007-2009 in the United States, Mexican migrants’ remittances began to grow steadily in 2014 until they reached a historical level of US$36 billion in 2019. This figure was at US$4 billion in March 2020 when Mexico had been suffering the effects of COVID-19 for one month. In April, remittances from Mexican migrants in the United States dropped 28%, as their unemployment rate reached 17%. Recuperating remittance levels will depend on economic recovery policies in the United States, and on reducing unemployment for Mexican migrants in the sectors where they have the biggest presence.

Combustible Hopes on the National Stage

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Hamera
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Work Ethic ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Recovery ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

This chapter argues for Detroit as an image and an actual place that spatializes and racializes the affective fallout of deindustrialization using three plays whose 2013 New York runs coincided with both the city’s impending bankruptcy and the United States’ anemic recovery from the Great Recession: Detroit by Lisa D’Amour, Detroit’67 by Dominique Morisseau, and Motown the Musical by Berry Gordy. Each play uses Detroit to explore the interpersonal consequences of opportunities and crises in racialized capitalism. Each offers audiences intimate visions of the Fordist bargain in its seeming heyday, particularly compelling in a period of lackluster economic recovery. In this chapter I introduce the formulations “re-siting” and “re-citing” to analyze the ways elements of Detroit’s incendiary history of interracial confrontations are redeployed to support images of a capitalist work ethic transcending or succumbing to racist violence, and to link the city to a seemingly race-neutral contemporary precarity.

scholarly journals Post-Pandemic Fertility: Lessons from the Great Recession

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Seltzer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Fertility Decline ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Recovery ◽  
Fertility Rates ◽  
Government Interventions ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
The U.S

In “Beyond the Great Recession: Labor Market Polarization and Ongoing Fertility Decline in the United States,” I investigated the economic reasons for why fertility rates in the United States continued to decrease after the Great Recession. The findings of this research might be informative of how the COVID-19 induced recession that began in March 2020 might influence fertility rates in the U.S. and perhaps other high-income countries. The scenarios presented here are based on (a) different forecasts of the pace and character of economic recovery, and (b) potential government interventions that are put into place to stabilize the economy.

scholarly journals The Great Recession’s Effect on Entrepreneurship

2011 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Scott Shane
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Gross Domestic Product ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
Unemployment Rate ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
The United States ◽  
Domestic Product ◽  
Economic Downturn ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
The Great Depression

Between December 2007 and June 2009, the United States suffered its biggest economic downturn since the Great Depression. Dubbed the Great Recession, this economic contraction saw gross domestic product decline 4 percent and the unemployment rate more than double from 4.9 percent to 10.1 percent.

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