Young workers likely to be hard hit as COVID-19 strikes a blow to restaurants and other service sector jobs
Nearly one-in-four U.S. workers are employed in the industries most likely to feel an immediate impact from the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Nearly one-in-four U.S. workers are employed in the industries most likely to feel an immediate impact from the COVID-19 outbreak.
For some governments, the debt incurred on COVID-19 relief will add to the considerable red ink already on their ledgers before the pandemic.
Despite some broad federal guidelines, claimants still face a hodgepodge of different state rules governing how they can qualify for benefits.
68% of those who have lost jobs or taken a pay cut due to COVID-19 are concerned that state governments will lift restrictions too quickly.
Half of adults who say they lost a job due to the coronavirus outbreak are still unemployed.
24% of civilian workers in the United States, or roughly 33.6 million people, do not have access to paid sick leave.
COVID-19 may yet do what years of advocacy have failed to: Make telework a benefit available to more than a relative handful of U.S. workers.
Only 23% say they have emergency funds that would last them three months.
The higher education pipeline suggests a long path is ahead for increasing diversity, especially in fields like computing and engineering.
About a year since the coronavirus recession began, there are some signs of improvement in the U.S. labor market, and Americans are feeling somewhat better about their personal finances than they were early in the pandemic.
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