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.
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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.