Final Project

By: Alex Montes

Our Nation has been through a lot when it comes to unemployment, economic crises and the struggle to gain stability through these trying times. From a Forbes report last May, Sarah Hansen says, “800,000 jobs were eliminated in March 2009, during the height of the Great Recession; about 8.6 million jobs were lost in total during that entire recession,” and “More than 20 million jobs were eliminated last month alone, and more than 33 million jobs have been lost since the 2020 crisis began” (Forbes, Hansen).

This is unemployment showing from the whole 2008 year, specially focusing on unemployment of women 20+.

2019–2021 unemployment rates in women, through pandemic.

All employees, can see through COVID. Less employed persons.

Complete unemployment, percent spiked during COVID.

Our economic struggle through COVID has shown to be more persistent in the loss of jobs in unemployment vs what we saw in our 2008 recession.