by Elyse Menger | Jul 9, 2020 | Covid-19 and Data
With the rise in COVID-19 cases, some states are rolling back openings of businesses. When combined with PPP programs running out next month, this could lead to another spike in unemployment claims. Since early April, AGS has released a weekly dataset on unemployment...
by Elyse Menger | Jul 9, 2020 | Covid-19 and Data
There seems to be a domino effect happening in the financial world, from state and local closures, to job loss, and as a result, a growing amount of consumer debt, bankruptcies and mortgage defaults. The wave of bankruptcies, especially those in the retail sector,...
by Elyse Menger | Jul 9, 2020 | Covid-19 and Data
The travel industry generally accounts for about 3% of GDP and was the very first economic casualty of the “stay-at-home” orders. Within a matter of just a few weeks, air travel dropped to near zero. Cruise lines cancelled their entire seasons. Major theme parks...
by Elyse Menger | Jul 9, 2020 | Covid-19 and Data
The opioid crisis in America has in recent years gained public awareness, but it is really only part of what have become known as ‘deaths of despair’ consisting of mainly drug-induced, alcohol-induced, and suicide deaths. The CDC reported 181,686 such deaths in 2018....
by Elyse Menger | Jul 2, 2020 | Snapshot API
A significant problem with using administrative districts for mapping results from the great discrepancies in their physical size and shape. For example, counties in the eastern United States tend to be small and regular, but the further west you get, the larger and...
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