COVID-19 Put More Than 1 Billion Out of Work
COVID-19 Put More Than 1 Billion Out of Work 32% lost their jobs or businesses About half saw their hours (49%) or wages cut (50%) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- As the COVID-19 pandemic sent shockwaves across the global economy last year, Gallup surveys in 117 countries and territories in 2020 show the pandemic damaged more than a billion people's livelihoods in its wake. At least some percentage of workers in all countries and territories stopped working temporarily, lost their jobs, worked fewer hours or earned less than usual because of the pandemic, but people in lower-income countries with large i...
Source: gallup.com