Looking for Work, and Hope: Jobless Americans Tell Their Stories
“Twenty-two million U.S. jobs were lost in March and April because of the pandemic — as many as the total in the Great Depression and Great Recession combined. To examine the human impact of those numbers, The Times’s National desk collaborated with 11 local news organizations across the country to tell the stories of unemployed Americans in their own words. The accounts of a dozen people, including an inventory coordinator in Carlisle, Pa.; an Army veteran in Augusta, Ga.; and a bartender in Las Vegas, appear in “Out of Work in America,” a special project published online Friday.”