Workplace change, once thought to take a decade or more, became reality during the COVID-19 economic dislocation, Tamar Jacoby, president of Opportunity America, tells Dallas Fed Senior Economist Pia Orrenius.

Legal immigrants, eligible to receive COVID-19 assistance, didn't seek help at a rate most others did. Senior research economist Wenhua Di discusses why that happened.

Petrochemicals, used in a range of goods and even foods, will remain tight into 2022 following last February's historic freeze, senior economist Jesse Thompson says.

Dallas Fed economists assess the nation's largest exporting state after a pandemic-year slump hit Texas especially hard.

Senior business economist Emily Kerr describes how the Texas economy's recovery is unlike any she has seen while monitoring state activity.

Research economist Yichen Su explains how the pandemic provided the impetus for the recent relocation from central cities to the suburbs and why some of the shift will likely persist.

Dallas Fed Senior Economist Anil Kumar discusses how Texas benefits from increased federal unemployment insurance and why the state misses out on realizing the full measure of Covid-19 jobs relief.

University of Oklahoma Economist Gary A. Hoover talks with Dallas Fed Senior Economist Pia Orrenius about underrepresentation of African Americans in economics and the challenges of discussing race, ethnicity and inequality in the classroom.

Dallas Fed senior economist Jason Saving discusses with Dallas Fed Senior Economist Keith R. Phillips how Texas's budgetary response to the pandemic will differ from other states.

Dallas Fed Research Analyst Aquil Jones and Executive Vice President Joseph Tracy explain why Black workers became particularly vulnerable to the phenomenon of 'last hired, first fired' in the economic fallout from COVID-19.