The COVID-19 employment roller coaster just took another turn, and the job growth we saw in Summer and Fall 2020 appears to be at an end.
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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.
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.
Graphical Analysis: The June 2020 U.S. Industry Employment Highlights
The mostly recent Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows that in May and June of this year the U.S. Economy may have recovered 36% of the jobs lost during in the first wave of COVID-19 shutdowns. Now, as public spaces are shutting down for a second time, I look at what happened last month in colorful and original graphs.
Analysis: Will the U.S. Government accurately report COVID-19 infections?
I survey the last week of coronavirus developments (before 2/29/2020), and offer reasons to be cautiously concerned about the accuracy of U.S. Government reporting on COVID-19 in the coming weeks and months.