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The Employment Situation - April 2020 (USDL-20-0815)

The Employment Situation - April 2020

Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor · United States (Federal)

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Jurisdiction
United States
Level
Federal
Authority
statistical release (facts and circumstances)
Issued
2020-05-08 May 8, 2020
Effective
n/a (read as 2020-05-08)
End
n/a
In force
May 8, 2020 (no end date recorded; counted as in force for 120 days)
Limitation types
Other
Functions reached
  • WF
  • HR
Collection
Restaurants and Food Service SEC-05

Operative words

In April, employment in leisure and hospitality plummeted by 7.7 million, or 47 percent. Almost three-quarters of the decrease occurred in food services and drinking places (-5.5 million).... Food services and drinking places [seasonally adjusted, thousands]: Feb. 2020 12,303.1; Mar. 2020 11,875.6; Apr. 2020 6,384.3; change -5,491.3

Enforcement

n/a

Notes

The scale of the suspension in 2020 Q2 as the Government's own statistics record it.

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