A staggering 22 million Americans in the country’s labour workforce lost their jobs between January and April 2020 due to covid closures, pushing the unemployment rate up to almost 15% – the highest rate ever recorded in the 72 years since data collection began in 1948 – and a year on, the rate hasn’t changed

World trade is expected to drop by up to 32% due to the covid-19 scare. Photo by Julius Silver from Pexels The sudden shutdown of businesses during the covid-19 scare is expected to create a drop in world trade. It is calculated to be approximately between 13 and 32 percent, according to the World Trade