Unemployment rates rose and total employment fell in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia in April as efforts to contain the ...
REUTERS: Unemployment rates rose and total employment fell in all 50 US states and the District of Columbia in April as efforts to contain the coronavirus pandemic forced businesses to close across the country, the Labor Department said on Friday .
The May 8 payrolls report showed a record 20.5 million jobs were lost in April, the steepest plunge in US employment since the Great Depression. In Nevada, home to the global gambling mecca of Las Vegas, half of the nearly 245,000 jobs lost in April were in the leisure and hospitality sector. That industry has suffered the greatest losses nationally from the reductions in travel and widespread closures of dine-in restaurants during a month when stay-at-home orders were deployed broadly.
That data suggests the worst may not be over for the hardest-hit states such as Nevada, Hawaii and Michigan. The number of continued claims rose in all three, including a 31 per cent week-over-week increase in Hawaii.
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