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COVID Recovery: Hawaii Ranks 45th
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States Whose Unemployment Claims Are Recovering the Quickest

From Wallet Hub, Dec 9, 2021

The U.S. is making significant progress in the fight against COVID-19 with the distribution of the vaccine, and this has been reflected in the job market, as new unemployment claims decreased week-over-week on November 29. There are currently 6.9 million Americans unemployed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in total, though, and it’s important to look at some key stats for the latest week to get the full picture:

There were 184,000 new unemployment claims nationwide, which is a lot fewer than the 6.1 million during the peak of the pandemic (a 97% reduction).
The good news is that every state had unemployment claims last week that were better than the same week last year.

Every state had unemployment claims last week that were lower than before the pandemic except for Florida, Minnesota, Alabama, Wisconsin, California, Michigan, Tennessee, Hawaii, Alaska, North Carolina, Indiana, and New Mexico.

To identify which states’ workforces are experiencing the quickest recovery from COVID-19, WalletHub compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia based on changes in unemployment claims for several key benchmark weeks.

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State Hawaii
Recovered Most Since Last Week  45
Recovered Most Since Start of COVID-19 Crisis  25
Change in Unemployment Claims (Latest Week vs. 2019)*  30.80%
Change in Unemployment Claims (Latest Week vs. Start of 2020)**  2.85%
Change in Unemployment Claims (Latest Week vs. Same Week of 2020)***  -56.06%
Change in Unemployment Claims (Since Start of COVID-19 Crisis vs. Previous Year)****  -76.57%
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