The U.S. economy nearly flattened in 2020, when roughly 22 million Americans lost their jobs.

Online review site Yelp says 80,000 business went under just from March 1-July 25, and about 160,000 closed between April and September 2020 nationally. Here in Ohio, one group has been working to bring companies to Cleveland and connect them with the people who've been hardest hit.

Ohio's leisure and hospitality industry is one of those groups. Nearly 94,000 lost their jobs during the pandemic, and about half of small business owners in the state say they may not make it.

In Cuyahoga County alone, 79 companies warned the state they were cutting 50 or more jobs in 2020; the year before it was 14.

"The number of jobs impacted went from a typical of 2,000 to just over 12,000. So that's just enormous," Vince Adamus of the Greater Cleveland Partnership told 3News.

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