200,000 jobs in Hawaiʻi vulnerable to pandemic recession

With economists predicting short-term unemployment rates as high as 25 percent, the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic will dwarf the Great Recession. Hawaiʻi’s non-military workforce is around 660,000 people. Beth Giesting, with the Hawaiʻi Budget and Policy Center, thinks around 200,000 jobs may be at risk during the COVID-19 downturn.