Half of the Nation’s Workforce Have Lost a Job or Income Due to Coronavirus
With many businesses shut down and job losses mounting nationwide, just over half of the nation’s workers (55 percent) now say they have lost a job or had their incomes reduced as a result of the health and economic crises sparked by the novel coronavirus pandemic, the latest KFF Health Tracking poll finds.
This includes a quarter (26%) of all those who were working on Feb. 1 who say they lost a job and another seven percent who say they got furloughed, as well as those who say their work hours have been reduced (21 percent) or that they have had to take a pay cut (13 percent).