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- Title
COVID-19 ends longest employment recovery and expansion in CES history, causing unprecedented job losses in 2020.
- Authors
Ansell, Ryan; Mullins, John P.
- Abstract
In March and April 2020, the longest employment recovery and expansion in U.S. history abruptly ended, with total nonfarm employment falling sharply because of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and the efforts to contain it. Job losses were historic and widespread. Although state and local government restrictions on businesses and individuals began to ease somewhat after April 2020, total nonfarm employment ended the year 10.0 million below its February peak.
- Subjects
COVID-19; LAYOFFS; EMPLOYMENT; UNITED States history
- Publication
Monthly Labor Review, 2021, p1
- ISSN
0098-1818
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.21916/mlr.2021.13