Here’s what you need to know: Construction workers eat lunch outside a restaurant in Downtown Los Angeles. The restaurant industry has been hard hit in the pandemic.Credit…Philip Cheung for The New York TimesTo understand what is important about the newest employment numbers, which show that the U.S. economy added only 49,000 jobs in January, Neil Irwin of The New York Times suggests imagining two different varieties of economic downturn:In one, a handful of industries experience a near-shutdown for reasons beyond anyone’s control, driving millions of people out of their jobs. But most other industries carry …
