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The meatpacking industry employed 474,000 workers, of whom 194,000 were categorized as frontline meatpacking workers in slaughterhouses and processing plants. 44.4% of meatpacking workers were Hispanic, and 25.2% were Black. 51.5% of the frontline meatpacking workers were immigrants, compared to 17% of the general workforce in the United States ...
Since the pandemic, Illinois ranks 47th in the country in job growth and last among all neighboring states in job growth rate with only 1,200 more jobs than were available in January 2020, making ...
An estimated $27 billion of the increase was due to the $600/week increase in unemployment benefits due to the CARES Act. [20] On May 20, 2021, the Labor Department reported that there had been only 444,000 unemployment claims during the previous week, the lowest number since the beginning of the pandemic. [21]
Signs on door of a Graeter's ice cream parlor in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Cincinnati during government-mandated closings. The COVID-19 pandemic impacted the United States restaurant industry via government closures, resulting in layoffs of workers and loss of income for restaurants and owners and threatening the survival of independent restaurants as a category.
Some 76,000 Illinois residents received $123 million in excess regular unemployment benefits since the pandemic hit, and they may be able to keep the money — as long as they haven’t already ...
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Strikes occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic due to many factors including: hazard pay or low pay, unsafe working conditions (due to poor social distancing or a lack of personal protective equipment), inability to pay rent. These strikes are separate from the various protests that occurred over responses to the pandemic.
When the coronavirus pandemic hit the U.S. last year, major brands scrambled to cancel some $40 billion worth of orders of apparel from overseas factories. But as many of the same brands recover ...