Coronavirus pandemic has put many lives in danger in the United States. Several cities and states have been locked down for the last few days to flatten the curve of this lockdown. Moreover, social distancing is the only solution to this dreaded situation. Due to everyone locked inside their homes, restaurants, cinema hall, offices and small businesses have been shut down and it has put millions of Americans losing their jobs.

According to estimates from Goldman Sachs economists, approx 2 million Americans have claimed that they have lost their jobs till the 21st of March. However, it could be the beginning of an unprecedented jobs crisis. According to the Job Quality Index (JQI), a research project from Cornell Law School and the Coalition for a Prosperous America that assesses job quality in the United States, more than 37 million (mostly lower-wage) jobs may be vulnerable to short-term layoffs due to the COVID-19 crisis and the response to it.

Although research has suggested it’d not be long term layoffs and it’d majorly affect the restaurants, bar, and cafeterias. Here is the list of sectors where people are expected to lose their jobs.

Image referece: https://www.statista.com/chart/21204/american-jobs-at-risk-due-to-coronavirus-outbreak/