Endangered Employment
The nation's unemployment rate was below 4% until the coronavirus struck, sending joblessness soaring to the point that in July, around one in five American workers — that's around 30 million people — were drawing jobless benefits. But don't let pre-coronavirus nostalgia run away with you: It's not like anyone could get any job they wanted. Indeed, many once-robust industries have long been declining into irrelevance from factors such as outsourcing and automation, even as other industries showed unexpectedly rapid growth. Here are some U.S. industries and jobs disappearing from under our noses.