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Reprinted from The Washington Post by on April 2, 2021.
The report comes a year after the pandemic threw the US economy into a tailspin.
The labor market recovered about 12 million of the 22 million jobs lost in the first two months of the pandemic by October. But the pace of the recovery had slowed drastically by then, and it churned sluggishly through winter as the virus surged through the holidays and into the New Year. …
