Many retail jobs that disappeared during the pandemic might not return, says commerce secretary

Vice President Kamala arris and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo browsing in a Providence bookstore wearing masks

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Many US retail and service-industry jobs that went away during the pandemic weren’t expected to return, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said.

“The real issue, I think, is that a lot of the jobs that folks lost are the kinds of jobs — let’s say, for example, in retail or services industries — that might not be coming back, or coming back in the same numbers,” Raimondo told CNBC on Thursday.

Earlier, the Labor Department reported 364,000 jobless claims for the previous week, marking a pandemic-era low. Raimondo’s comments came ahead of Friday’s jobs report from details ⇒

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