As the onset of the devastating coronavirus pandemic is nearing its one-year mark, Jennifer Godsey is one who is still reeling in the wake of the financial damage she incurred last March.
For Godsey, life trucked along normally until March. By the middle of that month, restaurants were ordered to close on-site dining in an attempt to curb the spread of the virus.
The leisure and hospitality industry in the United States became one of the hardest-hit industries. By April, the country’s unemployment rate reached 14.7% – an all-time high in the country’s history of unemployment data, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. More than 23 million people were left without work as the pandemic continued to spread.