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Coronavirus And The Labor Market

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The U.S. economy added 273,000 jobs last month, and the unemployment rate fell to a very low 3.5 percent. However, because unemployment data is collected in the first half of the month, it means those healthy figures do not reflect the effects that coronavirus might be having on the labor market.
Today we talk with Martha Gimbel of Schmidt Futures about how the way the U.S. labor market is structured and has developed could make it vulnerable to a widespread coronavirus outbreak.
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