Chart of the Week: Labor Lost

It took nine years to add 21 million US workers to payrolls; COVID-19 wiped them out in two months.

Source: BLS, St.Louis Fred, S&P Global Economics; S&P Global Ratings, “Biweekly US Economics Roundup: With Unprecedented Job Losses, Unemployment Soars”, published May 8, 2020.

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