Report: Maine could lose 3 times more jobs by June than it did in the Great Recession

BANGOR DAILY NEWS • April 1, 2020

An estimated 61,000 Maine jobs could be lost by the summer as the new coronavirus drags the country into a recession, according to a new analysis from the Maine Center for Economic Policy and the Economic Policy Institute. That figure would equate to more than triple the jobs lost in the state during the Great Recession and more per capita than all but eight other states. But the Maine Center for Economic Policy predicts the economic fallout from the coronavirus will hit the economy harder and faster as officials shut down businesses deemed nonessential.