The Workforce, Post COVID-19

In the week that ended March 21, 2020, more than three million people filed for unemployment benefits as businesses continue to shut down to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus 2019 or COVID-19 (see 3.3 Million File For Unemployment Claims, Shattering Records). We’ve never seen anything like it before and it will probably get worse before it gets better.

But hidden in these numbers is the high demand for workers in the health and human service field—the essential . . .