Once again, job losses fall unequally across the US economy
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and ALEXANDRA OLSON, AP Business Writers
Published: January 9, 2021, 2:32pm
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Comedian Brad Pierce, right, looks over the notebook us uses to write jokes as he sits in the kitchen next to his wife, Carmen, and their nephew, Maddox, 1, in West Warwick, R.I., Friday, Jan. 8, 2021. Pierce was finally doing well with his comedy when the pandemic hit. Now he wonders if he can possibly build up his career again. He has a friend who drives for Amazon and fears having to get a job like that while talking about the good old days when he was an entertainer. (AP Photo/David Goldman)Photo Gallery
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ten months into America’s viral outbreak, low-income workers are still bearing the brunt of job losses — an unusual and harsh feature of the pandemic recession that flattened the economy last spring.
In December, the nation shed jobs for the first time since April. Once again, the layoffs were heavily concentrated in the industries that have suffered most because they involve the kind of face-to-face contact that is now nearly impossible: Restaurants, bars and hotels, theaters, sports arenas and concert halls.
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