Faced with a fast-spreading disease, a slew of misinformation and unclear guidance from all levels of government, the national economy contracted as businesses temporarily or permanently shut down. It is apparent that **certain sectors of the economy **have been hit differently by the response to the virus, and this article will explore employment trends from January to June 2020 for three cross-sections: state, race, and industry.
Data for this analysis was retrieved from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. You can download the data and check out a python notebook at my github repo.
rchardptrsn/COVID-Employment-Analysis
State Unemployment
Some states have been slower to recover from the knee-jerk job market crash that followed the outbreak of COVID-19. Nevada, who has almost 300,000 workers in the hospitality and leisure industries, saw unemployment hit 30 percent in April 2020.
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