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It s been a year that can t end soon enough for most of us, weary of the Covid-19 restrictions that have hampered our lifestyle and caused so much economic pain.
The recession has cost us about 40,000 jobs and the recovery first stalled and then went into reverse as the second wave of Covid cases hit this fall.
The toll is staggering. More than $600 million in lost wages in just the second quarter alone. One of every 14 jobs has disappeared in a wave of job losses that is more than twice as severe as the region endured during the Great Recession and the 2001 downturns combined.