Inequities Exposed: How COVID-19 Widened Racial Inequities in Education, Health, and the Workforce. Hearing before the Committee on Education and Labor. U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixteenth Congress, Second Session (June 22, 2020). Serial No. 116-59

This document records testimony from a hearing before the Committee on Education and Labor that was held to examine how COVID-19 widened racial inequities in education, health, and the workforce. Member statements were provided by: (1) Honorable Virginia Foxx, Ranking Member, Committee on Education and Labor; and (2) Honorable Robert C. Scott, Chairman, Committee on Education and Labor. Witness statements were provided by: (1) Camara P., Jones, Adjunct Professor, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, Senior Fellow and Adjunct Associate Professor, Morehouse School of Medicine, Past President, American Public Health Association Atlanta, Georgia; (2) John B. King, Jr., President and CEO, The Education Trust, Washington, DC; (3) Valerie Rawlston Wilson, Director, Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy, Economic Policy Institute, Silver Spring, Maryland; and (4) Avik, Roy, Co-Founder and President, The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, Austin, Texas. Additional submissions include: (1) Mrs. Foxx: Article--"Failure in the Virtual Classroom"; (2) Chairman Scott: Report--"Black Workers Face Two of the Most Lethal Preexisting Conditions for Coronavirus, Racism and Economic Inequality"; Memorandum: Information Requested about Racial Disparities in Private Health Insurance and Medicaid and COVID-19 Related Issues; Memorandum: Responses to Various Elementary and Secondary Education, Higher Education and Homeless Youth Questions Related to the Ongoing Coronavirus Pandemic; and Memorandum: Equity Issues in the Labor Market and COVID-19; (3) Questions submitted for the record by: Honorable Joseph Morelle, a Representative in Congress from the State of New York; Honorable Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan, a Representative in Congress from the Northern Marinara Islands; and Honorable Haley M. Stevens, a Representative in Congress from the State of Michigan; and (4) Mr. King responses to questions submitted for the record.