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THEN MARCH CAME Record & Observer JACKSONVILLE
NOW YOU SEE IT, NOW YOU DON’T
2020 has been a year of historic events - and we’re only halfway through. The Jacksonville economy and the world changed significantly since January. JACKSONVILLE
Record & Observer T BY MAX MARBUT
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
he first two months of 2020 generally were unremarkable. Then March came, and everything changed. It began in Northeast Florida the evening of March 12, when the PGA Tour canceled the final three rounds of The Players golf tournament because having thousands of spectators on the course wouldn’t allow for “social distancing” as COVID-19 began to spread. The next week, emergency orders took effect on the state and local levels that shut down business as we knew it. Nonessential retail, restaurants and bars, hotels and public buildings and entertainment venues were closed to slow the spread of the virus. That led to widespread unemployment in Northeast Florida, rising from 4.3% in March to 11.2% in April. Major retailers with a local presence declared bankruptcy For more as the pandemic stymied any 6-month attempt at survival. Some changes, see Jacksonville-based employPAGES 4-5 ers permanently reduced their workforces. People with access to technology began working from home, many with reduced paychecks and hours as their employers scrambled to adapt to the pandemic economy. With schools closed, education from elementary through college also went online. Parents had to juggle working at home and home-schooling their children. Hospitals braced for an anticipated flood of COVID-19 patients who would need critical care, although those numbers didn’t materialize to the degree feared. Then on May 25, George Floyd, a 46-yearold Black man, died in the custody of a white police officer in Minneapolis. That set off protests nationwide, including in Jacksonville, where a police officer was
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MAY 2019 VS. JUNE 2020
DECEMBER 2019 VS. JUNE 2020
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MARCH 2019 VS. JUNE 2020
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