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Employment Trends: A Full Recovery in 2020 is Possible, but may be Unlikely
While employment growth slowed in September 2020, the industry employment numbers over the summer suggest that an American labor market, without COVID-19, could quickly rebound. I explore some different employment growth scenarios.
The September 2020 National U.S. Employment Numbers in Four Graphs
The major takeaways: All sectors but the Federal Government are still down significantly from their peak employment on February 2020; only the Financial Services sector is close to being “recovered”; the Leisure and Hospitality sector is continuing to suffer from double-digit employment losses but is growing quickly.
Graphical Analysis: State-Level U.S. Employment is Failing to “Bounce Back”
I look at the August 2020 state-level employment data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and find generally lackadaisical employment numbers in both large and small states. This is my first look at the state-level and local-level data provided by the BLS, and was done using original data tools that can process and manage large multi-dimensional time series datasets.