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 Job Impact by Educational Attainment The pandemic has had many impacts on the labor market. The most prominent was the sharp job loss in the spring of 2020 and the yearlong recovery that has followed. The impact has been quite different across sectors of the economy , by gender , and in which types of jobs were able to transition to remote work . It also has impacted workers differently by level of educational attainment, which is the focus of this article. The U.S. Census Bureau’s Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) provide information on jobs by educational attainment for workers age 25 and over. It does not provide that information for younger workers because many have not yet completed their high school or college education. At 17.6 percent, workers under 25 experienced the sharpest job reduction in the year between the third quarter of 2019 (before the pandemic) and the third quarter of 2020. Among those age 25 and over, the number of jobs was down ten percent for those who had