by Elyse Menger | Dec 17, 2020 | Featured, Unemployment Data
Earlier this week, we released our fortieth edition of the weekly unemployment estimates that we started at the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis. We naively thought that the crisis – or at least the employment effects of it – would be but an unpleasant blip in the...
by elysehrobinson | Sep 10, 2020 | Unemployment Data
For at least a decade, the AGS labor force models have been fairly stable in terms of data sources and techniques, using a combination of the annual American Community Survey (ACS) block group data and the monthly unemployment updates for states and large metropolitan...
by Elyse Menger | Apr 9, 2020 | Unemployment Data
A few weeks ago, in a blog post entitled Flattening the Economy, we looked at the likely effects of the COVID-19 shutdown on unemployment in several major cities. In the two weeks since then, those seeking unemployment insurance in the U.S. hit 10 million claims and...
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