Prognosis
More Americans Are Too Sick to Work as Virus Cases Surge
- Number of employed workers shrank after growing last month
- Americans increasingly can’t afford to eat, Census data show
The total number of employed people in the U.S. is about 140 million.
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American workers are increasingly leaving their jobs or are too sick to work as coronavirus cases spike across the U.S.
The number of employed Americans fell by 4.3 million in the two weeks ended Dec.7, according to the latest edition of the U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey. That’s following a 2.4 million rise in the number of workers with jobs during the prior two week period.