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May 2021 State Job Metrics in a Recovering Pandemic Landscape

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Yesterday this Blog discussed state employment metrics for May 2021.  See https://blog.stewart.com/stewart/2021/06/28/may-2021-state-job-metrics-in-a-recovering-pandemic-landscape/ Today the same metrics are presented but at the Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) level.   While the U.S. has 392 MSAs, data are available for only 380 from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) based on seasonally adjusted data which allows comparison of …Read more

Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Which Metros are the Most Economically Recovered of All — From the Pandemic, that is, as of April 2021

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Yesterday this blog talked about state employment levels using fairy tale rhetoric.  Today that discussion rachets down the to the Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) level.  Reiterating from yesterday, imagine if the past 14 months had just been a bad fairy tale rather the most severe global pandemic in more than 100 years.   But, that is …Read more

MSA Job Performance Metrics March 2021

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Jobs are everything to the economy and the ultimate demand for real estate.  While the pandemic saw 22.4 million jobs disappear from February to April 2020, all but 8.4 million of those job numbers have been brought back in one form or another.  The recovery, however, is neither uniform nor consistent across the country. The …Read more

State Job Growth Rates February 2021

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The U.S. continued recouping jobs lost a year ago at the onset of the pandemic, with 30 states posting jobs gains from January to February 2021 on a seasonally adjusted basis based on data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.  Six states posted no change in jobs from January to February while 14 states …Read more

State Employment October 2020 — Still coming Back

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Jobs are everything to the economy.  Period. The U.S. lost 22+ million jobs from February (pre-pandemic) to the trough, which was April for the country as a whole.  Good news is jobs are continuing to come back.   Bad news is there are still 10 million jobs missing as of October compared to February of this …Read more

Pandemic Job Recovery Progresses — 12 million Recaptured of the 22.2 million Lost, Unemployment Rate Sinks to 6.9% October 2020

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The economy continues to claw back from the economic punch of the pandemic, with 638,000 jobs recaptured in October on a seasonally adjusted basis as reported by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).   There still remains 10.1 million jobs yet to be brought back out of the 22.2 million lost from February 2020 (pre-pandemic) …Read more