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The COVID-19 pandemic led to a massive drop in persons in the labor force. According to Pew Research Center, from February 2020 to February 2021 an estimated 4.2 million people left the labor force because of COVID-19, 2.4 million of which were women. [47] [48] As a result, women's participation in the labor force was at a 30-year low. [49]
Key employment statistics and ratios for December 2018 Number of persons in U.S. labor force and number employed. The gap is the number unemployed, which peaked at 15.4 million in October 2009 and fell to 7.4 million by November 2016.
Meatpacking plants experienced sporadic shutdowns as many workers contracted COVID-19, resulting in spot meat shortages around the country. [citation needed] According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a report stating that by April 27, out of 130,578 workers nationwide, at least 4,913 meat and poultry plant workers had ...
There were 1.13 job openings for every unemployed person, up from 1.12 in October. The vacancies-to-unemployed ratio is just below its average of 1.2 before the COVID-19 pandemic. It was 1.43 a ...
Largely lost in last week's disappointing September jobs report is the fact that the number of long-term unemployed Americans continues to decline -- a good sign for those who want to return to ...
U.S. job openings rose unexpectedly in November, showing companies are still looking for workers even as the labor market has cooled overall. Openings rose to 8.1 million in November, the most ...
The true COVID-19 death toll in the United States would therefore be higher than official reports, as modeled by a paper published in The Lancet Regional Health – Americas. [3] One way to estimate COVID-19 deaths that includes unconfirmed cases is to use the excess mortality , which is the overall number of deaths that exceed what would ...
The workers in the 25 states stand to collectively lose $25.2 billion in benefits, averaging out to potentially thousands of dollars per worker, according to an analysis by the Century Foundation.