30 million people have filed for unemployment in the last 6 weeks, equal to *every single worker* losing their job in these 27 states

by EngagingData

I wanted to provide better context for the magnitude of unemployment claims (30 million) in the last few weeks due to the shutdowns and social distancing measures to respond to the coronavirus pandemic. It is literally equivalent to every single worker losing their jobs in a number of states (depending on which states you look at). 27 if you choose the least populated states, and 3 if you choose the most populated states.

Just for context the entire state of New York is estimated to have around 9.5 million people in the civilian labor force as of Feb 2020 (i.e .all employed civilians and all people who are receiving unemployment).

We are primarily funded by readers. Please subscribe and donate to support us!

Here is a link to the original interactive map: engaging-data.com/unemployment-covid-19-pandemic/?maptype=most

Sources and Tools:

Data on unemployment was obtained from the US Department of Labor website and labor force numbers by state are downloaded from the Bureau of Labor statistics. And the visualization was created using javascript and the open source leaflet javascript mapping library.

Views:

Leave a Comment

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.