Unemployment Uncovered: Rate and Labor Force Insights

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Sales at cafes and lunch trucks near SocialConnect's campus fell 45 percent after layoffs began in January 2020, first hitting engineers on experimental teams before spreading to marketing and support staff. Nearby apartment vacancies climbed from 5 percent to 12 percent as workers left, while local career centers saw enrollment in coding and data courses double. By mid-2021 about 85 percent of affected workers had found new positions.

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