Millions of American jobslost during the coronavirus pandemic could take years to return, according to new projections released by the Internal Revenue Service, underscoring the depth of the damage inflicted by the crisis on the nation's labor market. The IRSforecaststhere will be about 229.3 milli...
As many as 22 million jobs have been lost in advanced economies due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development said Wednesday. The OECD's annual employment outlook said job retention schemes rolled out during the height of the coronavirus crisis saved some...
New York state shed 1 million jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 amid lockdowns and meltdowns in tourism and business activity, a sobering new report reveals. That means 10 percent of the state workforce vanished. New York City lost the majority of the jobs from pre-pandemic Decemb...
Instacart signed up 300,000 new "shoppers" to its platform at the beginning of the pandemic, bringing its total to 500,000. Seventy percent of its shoppers are women. As coronavirus cases spiked during the summer, more women than men continued to turn to gig work after they lost their fu...
Unions and political representatives are seeking clarity for Bord na Móna workers following speculation that hundreds of jobs could be lost due to the Covid-19 crisis. Bord na Mona confirmed it will “temporarily release” 230 workers as of April 30, but that its “permanent employees” will ...
week’s upwardly revised total of 841,00. The Fed have now reported about 78 million initial jobless claims over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic — a number equivalent to roughly 47 percent of the nation’s workforce. Since last February, the United States has lost over 10 million ...
St. Paul, MN (KROC-AM News) - The latest jobs report from the state shows Minnesota has regained 60 percent of the jobs that were lost during the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown last year. The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development says the state had a net gain of about...
Wyoming's extraction industry also lost about 20% of its jobs in the second quarter as a result of declining energy demand from restrictions on business and travel.
The U.S. is still missing more than 7 million jobs lost due to COVID-19, and business owners complain they can’t find workers. “We’re having a severe staffing problem,” said Jeff Wells, a wine store owner. “Now we’re facing another pandemic that no one saw coming, and that’...
The state’s Employment Development Department says California has now regained 1.3 million jobs, or 48% of the 2.7 million it lost in March and April of 2020.