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- Title
Unemployment rises in 2020, as the country battles the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Authors
Smith, Sean M.; Edwards, Roxanna; Duong, Hao C.
- Abstract
Total civilian employment fell by 8.8 million over the year, as the COVID-19 pandemic brought the economic expansion to a sudden halt, taking a tremendous toll on the U.S. labor market. The unemployment rate increased in 2020, surging to 13.0 percent in the second quarter of the year before easing to 6.7 percent in the fourth quarter. Although some people were able to work at home, the numbers of unemployed on temporary layoff, those working part time for economic reasons, and those unemployed for 27 or more weeks increased sharply over the year.
- Subjects
COVID-19 pandemic; UNEMPLOYMENT; LABOR market; ECONOMIC expansion; UNEMPLOYMENT statistics; LAYOFFS; TELECOMMUTING
- Publication
Monthly Labor Review, 2021, p1
- ISSN
0098-1818
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.21916/mlr.2021.12