Unemployment in Los Angeles County rose to a staggering 20.3% in April, with coronavirus-related business closures putting roughly one in five L.A. workers out of a job. These numbers, worse than what we saw in the Great Recession, come from a grim unemployment report released Friday by California’s Employment Development Department.

<p>Unemployment in Los Angeles County&nbsp;<a href="https://laist.com/projects/2020/coronavirus-economy/la/los-angeles/">rose to a staggering 20.3%</a> in April, with coronavirus-related business closures putting roughly one in five L.A. workers out of a job. These numbers, worse than what we saw in the Great Recession, come from a grim <a href="https://www.edd.ca.gov/Newsroom/unemployment-may-2020.htm">unemployment report</a>&nbsp;released Friday by California&rsquo;s Employment Development Department.</p>

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