Topic - Greg Albrecht

The state lost 284,000 jobs - more than 14% of its total employment - in the earliest months of the pandemic, and had recovered about 121,500 of those jobs through January, Albrecht told the committee as it opened budget hearings for the financial year that begins July 1.

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