Sixteen of the 380 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) ended 2020 with more jobs than they started with and one other broke even according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics using seasonally adjusted data. The 40 MSAs with the best performance (and fewest losses) are shown in the first table. The second table …Read more
After a pandemic-driven hemorrhage of 22.16 million jobs in March and April last year, the arduous task of rebuilding jobs commenced. Good news is that two states, Idaho and Utah, now have more jobs (as of the end of December 2020) than ever before according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). All data …Read more
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