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The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has had a deep impact on the rate of unemployment in the United States. The World Economic Forum predicts a possible rise in the unemployment rate to 20%, a figure unseen since the Great Depression. [76]
By March 26, 2020, the United States, with the world's third-largest population, surpassed China and Italy as the country with the world's highest number of confirmed cases. [86] By April 25, the U.S. had more than 905,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and nearly 52,000 deaths, giving it a mortality rate around 5.7 percent.
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought initial unemployment claims to 38.6 million in just nine weeks, according to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Labor — shattering historic highs ...
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]
California lost a staggering 2.7 million jobs at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, losses brought on by Gov. Gavin Newsom's stay-at-home order, which forced many businesses to close.
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This is just ahead of Riverside County's COVID-19 case count of 29,983. [152] Los Angeles County, which has more COVID-19 cases than any other California county, is also confirmed to have 160,000 cases. [152] July 22: The entire state of California is confirmed to have topped 409,000 COVID-19 cases, surpassing New York for most in the nation. [153]
The number of Americans forced out of work by the coronavirus pandemic has continued to climb, with another 4.4 million workers filing for unemployment benefits last week. The latest figure ...