New Jersey, Massachusetts have highest unemployment rates

[Suburbia]

1. Massachusetts, 17.4 percent
2. New Jersey, 16.6 percent
3. New York, 15.7 percent
4. Nevada, 15.0 percent
5. California, 14.9 percent

State with lowest unemployment rate: Kentucky, 4.3 percent

There needs to be more jobs in these states. I've applied for some part-time jobs in NJ, haven't got a call back.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/07/heres-where-the-jobs-are-for-july-2020-in-one-chart.html

https://www.bls.gov/web/laus/laumstrk.htm

[Former President tack50]

I am surprised it is not Hawaii or Florida. Aren't those 2 states super dependent on tourism?

[Suburbia]

Florida's unemployment rate may spike soon, FL GOV 2022 is a Tossup.

New Jersey loses jobs to PA and NY, Murphy needs to upgrade his jobs plan.

[Progressive Pessimist]

Florida's unemployment rate may spike soon, FL GOV 2022 is a Tossup.

New Jersey loses jobs to PA and NY, Murphy needs to upgrade his jobs plan.

I'm pretty sure that the reason for these high unemployment numbers has more to do with the cautious reopening plan of our state. Restaurants still can only have outdoor dining and some retail stores are still closed.

[Suburbia]

Florida's unemployment rate may spike soon, FL GOV 2022 is a Tossup.

New Jersey loses jobs to PA and NY, Murphy needs to upgrade his jobs plan.

I'm pretty sure that the reason for these high unemployment numbers has more to do with the cautious reopening plan of our state. Restaurants still can only have outdoor dining and some retail stores are still closed.

Retail is dead in NJ, most of the big box highway stores are dead

[Del Tachi]

Lockdowns kill jobs and opportunity, who knew?

[S019]

Lockdowns kill jobs and opportunity, who knew?

[Landslide Lyndon]

Lockdowns kill jobs and opportunity, who knew?

Says the guy from the state with one of the highest per capita death rates.

[Senator-elect Spark]

Of course, they are all Democratic states.

[Brittain33]

Of course, they are all Democratic states.

They're states with functioning and responsive unemployment insurance systems, too, as opposed to Florida which pretends unemployment isn't happening.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Most people are leaving MA to go to FL, Boston isnt the best city to live in

[Alcibiades]

Of course, they are all Democratic states.

The same Democratic states whose taxpayers subsidise Republican states.

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

Florida's unemployment rate may spike soon, FL GOV 2022 is a Tossup.

New Jersey loses jobs to PA and NY, Murphy needs to upgrade his jobs plan.

I'm pretty sure that the reason for these high unemployment numbers has more to do with the cautious reopening plan of our state. Restaurants still can only have outdoor dining and some retail stores are still closed.

I wouldn't even say it's "cautious" anymore - it's stopped. We've basically been in a holding pattern since July 4th.

[Progressive Pessimist]

Florida's unemployment rate may spike soon, FL GOV 2022 is a Tossup.

New Jersey loses jobs to PA and NY, Murphy needs to upgrade his jobs plan.

I'm pretty sure that the reason for these high unemployment numbers has more to do with the cautious reopening plan of our state. Restaurants still can only have outdoor dining and some retail stores are still closed.

I wouldn't even say it's "cautious" anymore - it's stopped. We've basically been in a holding pattern since July 4th.

Honestly, I only real go out to pick up food or groceries, so I haven't really observed much else when it comes to our states' re-openings.

[Del Tachi]

I am surprised it is not Hawaii or Florida. Aren't those 2 states super dependent on tourism?

I’d imagine Nevada is actually the most tourist-dependent state (the beach is also a lot more pandemic-friendly than an indoor casino).  Florida has 22M people, so it’s economy is very diverse.

[It’s so Joever]

Lockdowns kill jobs and opportunity, who knew?

Man, reading your comment history from old to new is like watching someone slowly lose lucidity.

It starts off completely reasonable. Your comments are valuable and add substance to the discussion. However, something slowly becomes off.
Everyone who sees it realizes something is wrong. Your comments are progressively getting worse.
Each and every week, your posts slip further into a cesspool of degenerate bats**t insanity.
It’s just painful to watch, like a slow train wreck, but it’s even more difficult to take your eyes off of it.

Eventually, it just becomes a jumble of near-incoherent, illogical strawmans cluttered with a few false analogies and Trump-kissing rhetoric.

Each day Atlas just watches, wondering how goddamn low you can actually go, wondering if you and DTT are searching for rare minerals deep in the mantle, based on how low your posts actually digging.

I know Stage Four MAGAmania is near impossible to recover from, but I wish you the best of luck in your healing journey, and hope your recover from this crippling illness.

[Del Tachi]

Lockdowns kill jobs and opportunity, who knew?

Man, reading your comment history from old to new is like watching someone slowly lose lucidity.

It starts off completely reasonable. Your comments are valuable and add substance to the discussion. However, something slowly becomes off.
Everyone who sees it realizes something is wrong. Your comments are progressively getting worse.
Each and every week, your posts slip further into a cesspool of degenerate bats**t insanity.
It’s just painful to watch, like a slow train wreck, but it’s even more difficult to take your eyes off of it.

Eventually, it just becomes a jumble of near-incoherent, illogical strawmans cluttered with a few false analogies and Trump-kissing rhetoric.

Each day Atlas just watches, wondering how goddamn low you can actually go, wondering if you and DTT are searching for rare minerals deep in the mantle, based on how low your posts actually digging.

I know Stage Four MAGAmania is near impossible to recover from, but I wish you the best of luck in your healing journey, and hope your recover from this crippling illness.

If you haven't noticed, most quality posters have long-ago checked-out from the COVID threads (y'all are really inhospitable to anything other than absolute panic porn over there, lol) and I have been giving less effort to the topic as well.  Enjoy the echo chamber of your own deranged making, I'm going to the beach.     

[Figueira]

Lockdowns kill jobs and opportunity, who knew?

As an unemployed person, I'm thankful that all my immediate family members are still alive.

[DINGO Joe]

Well, the be unemployed (by gov't definition) you first have to be employed.  Hence the extreme variability in workforce participation rates state to state.  In Massachusetts 68% of the 16 and over population seeks to be part of the workforce, while in Mississippi, it's 55%.