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Nonfatal Workplace Ladder Injuries

Nonfatal ladder injuries resulting in at least one day away from work were essentially unchanged in 2020. There were 22,710 injuries where the primary source of the injury was a ladder in 2020, compared with 22,330 in 2019. Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations had 5,790 injuries where the primary source was a ladder. Construction and extraction occupations had 5,370 ladder injuries, and service occupations had 3,160.

Changes To Consumer Spending

After the COVID-19 pandemic began, consumer spending in the second quarter of 2020 was down 9.8% from the same period in 2019. One year later, in the second quarter of 2021, the pandemic was still affecting the economy, but businesses and consumers had begun to adapt. That resulted in consumer expenditures that were 15.7% higher in the second quarter of 2021 than a year earlier. Consumer expenditures in the first and second quarters of 2021 were even higher than in the first quarter of 2020, which was largely unaffected by the pandemic because it began late in the first quarter.

Gross Job Gains

From June 2021 to September 2021, gross job gains from opening and expanding private-sector establishments were 8.8 million, while gross job losses from closing and contracting private-sector establishments were 7.5 million. The difference between the number of gross job gains and the number of gross job losses resulted in a net employment gain of 1.3 million jobs in the private sector during the third quarter of 2021. The net employment gain of 1.3 million jobs during the third quarter of 2021 was an increase of 420,000 from the net employment gain of 893,000 during the second quarter of 2021. This represents the fifth consecutive quarter of a net employment gain, following a net employment loss of 14.7 million jobs during the second quarter of 2020. The goodsproducing industries had a net employment gain of 69,000 jobs during the third quarter of 2021, as gross job gains and losses were both at 1.3 million.

Consumer Spending During Pandemic

The largest changes in consumer spending during the pandemic were for food away from home, alcoholic beverages, and apparel and services. These categories showed similar patterns with huge swings, both negative and positive. The largest decline was a 53.7-percent drop in spending for food away from home from the second quarter of 2019 to the second quarter 2020. The largest increase was a 91.2-percent rise in spending for food away from home from the second quarter of 2020 to the second quarter of 2021.

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