📊 Brazil’s uneven shape

Brazil’s post-pandemic rebound has delivered record job creation and lowered poverty through expanded cash-transfer programs. Yet the latest set of data from the 2022 census offers a sobering counterpoint: structural inequality still shapes who works, who earns and who advances in the country. 

In the most granular picture to date, the data maps disparities that cut across geography, race and gender — and help explain why Latin America’s largest economy struggles to turn spurts of growth into lasting development gains….

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