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Re:Coronavirus: 18% of U.S. workers have lost jobs or hours,... by simondw on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @02:40PM (#22608512)
Grouping related things together isn't necessarily conflating.

I don't think the article is trying to say "18% of workers have basically lost their jobs!!!", but rather to give a sense of how many people's incomes are impacted.

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Re:Coronavirus: 18% of U.S. workers have lost jobs or hours,... by WillPostForFood on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @02:45PM (#22608565)
If they weren't trying to conflate them the headline would have been "Coronavirus: 18% of U.S. workers have reduced our or lost jobs"
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