Fired over text, 800 calls to unemployment: What it’s like losing your job in the coronavirus pandemic

Fired over text, 800 calls to unemployment: What it’s like losing your job in the coronavirus pandemic

The U.S. is currently grappling with unprecedented levels of unemployment and is predicted to experience a coronavirus-induced recession at least through 2021.

As of April 17, over 22 million American workers had lost their jobs due to coronavirus. 

Alexander Colvin, a labor and employment researcher and dean of the ILR School at Cornell University tells CNBC Make It that the scale of the…

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