Tatiana Fernandez, 49, an employee of the City of Hialeah in Florida, distributes unemployment forms to Miami-Dade County residents outside the John F. Kennedy Library on April 7, 2020. As the COVID-19 pandemic creeps into the summer, over 3 8 .5 million U.S. workers are now jobless. While an unforeseen era of social distancing takes hold, consumer purchasing has slowed to a crawl, labor markets face shortages and supply chains are interrupted. Unprecedented economic uncertainty for the world’s population — the likes of which hasn’t been seen since the Great Depression — has brought economies and incomes to a […]
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