CONCORD — A new study of the pandemic’s effect on people in their prime working years shows every state’s employment rate dropped, some significantly due to the coronavirus.
The Pew Charitable Trust used U.S. Labor Department statistics to compare the percentage of people between the ages of 25 and 54 years old who were working before and during the pandemic.
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