Nonprofit Sector Has Lost Close to Million Jobs During the Pandemic
Small Business Labs
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
The nonprofit segment is quite large, employing more than 10% of all U.S. private sector workers. This is more workers than in the manufacturing, construction, or finance sectors. So it's a problem that nonprofits have been hit hard by the pandemic. The chart below (click to enlarge) comes from the Center for Civil Society Studies at Johns Hopkins University. It shows employment in the nonprofit sector has fallen by over 900,000 jobs since the beginning of the pandemic.
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