Interesting data. Thanks for noticing these patterns!
There are definite policy failures in the Woke Big City Way of doing things. I'm not educated enough on how big cities work (only having lived in one for two years of my life) to hazard a guess at what those policy failures are exactly, but at this point it's pretty unmistakable that something is rotten in the states of New York and California.
NYC could be people who would've "dropped out of the labor force" elsewhere continuing to file for unemployment?
I know Asians (which both LA and NYC have a lot of)
have been hit particularly hard by unemployment, but I doubt that alone explains what we're seeing here.
