The economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic so far hold stark differences along geographic, income and educational lines.
The bottom two states — South Dakota and West Virginia — share a few traits. Both are home to rural, dispersed populations and both are above the national average for agricultural employment. Utah and Connecticut stand out for other reasons. Both are above the national average for college degrees and for the percentage of jobs in broad Census categories that include information, finance and administrative positions. The kinds of jobs that may be easier to perform remotely.
People who describe themselves as upper class or well-to-do, who live in urban areas or who have a post-graduate education are less likely than others to say they have lost their jobs. However, it’s significant that suburbanites are doing slightly worse than those in rural communities , thus far anyway. It remains to be seen whether those numbers will hold as the coronavirus moves further into rural areas.
And the differences are even greater by education. Among those with a post-graduate education, more than half are now teleworking/working from home. With college grads, the figure is 39 percent. For those without a degree, only 20 percent are working away from their offices.
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