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What would the economy look like if the COVID-19 pandemic didn't happen? Betsey Stevenson, professor of public policy and economics, weighed in on the question.
"We would have had 5 million more jobs, not 500,000 more jobs," Stevenson said. "A lot of our job growth prior to the pandemic came from education and health services."