How will the pandemic change jobs — and who will be left behind?
Next Question with Katie Couric
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4.4 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
With widespread shelter-in-place orders shutting down major cities and many states, the U.S. economy has come to an abrupt standstill. And after just five weeks, this COVID crisis has forced more than 26 million Americans to file for unemployment. On this episode of Next Question with Katie Couric, Katie talks to Victor Tan Chen, sociology professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, and author of “Cut Loose: Jobless and Hopeless in an Unfair Economy.” Chen explains what makes this unemployment crisis so unprecedented, why it’s underscoring pre-existing inequalities in the labor force and how the pandemic could change the job market — and who it could leave behind. Throughout the episode, we also hear from the people behind the unemployment statistics.
Read the Atlantic article ‘The Second Phase of Unemployment Will Be Harsher,’ by Victor Tan Chen and Ofer Sharone.
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| 1:42.1 | Hi everyone, I'm Katie Curric and welcome to next question. Today, with widespread shelter and |
| 1:49.0 | place orders shutting down major cities and many states, the US economy has come to an abrupt |
| 1:55.4 | standstill. In one week in March, jobless claims jumped by three million and after just five weeks, |
| 2:02.7 | this COVID crisis has forced more than 26 million Americans to file for unemployment. |
| 2:10.7 | Hi, my name is Megan Guisari and this is my story. I live in a suburb of Boston, |
| 2:18.8 | Massachusetts and I was furloughed for my job on March 29th. Hi, my name is Nicole Daniel from |
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