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Friday, September 3, 2021

Pandemic's Impact on the Urban Economy

The Work-From-Home Economy and the Urban Job Outlook
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/03/business/economy/covid-urban-service-economy.html
This anxiety is widespread across the American economy. As Kevin Thorpe, chief economist of the commercial real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield, noted, “The longer the virus lingers, the more transformative it is going to be.”
A critical question is whether the urban service economy — the restaurants, hotels, taxi services and entertainment venues that employ millions of workers — can recover from the multiple waves of Covid-19 that have kept their customers away”.