With unemployment claims surging past the 3 million mark in one week — the highest in U.S. history and surpassing the number of jobless Americans during the Great Recession — it’s no surprise that anxiety about job loss looms large. Since the first case of Covid-19 was reported in the U.S. in January, nearly one in five American workers has been laid off or has experienced hours reductions, according to a recent Marist poll. And the worst may be yet to come. According to Moody’s Analytics, nearly 80 million people in the U.S. are at a moderate or high risk of being laid off as a result of the pandemic — meaning more than half of the workforce could be facing job losses in the months ahead.
