The End of Unemployment?

During the hectic early weeks of the pandemic lockdowns last year, the weekly unemployment numbers were truly shocking even to those among us who sadly saw it coming once the pandemic started. In the week ending March 7, just under 200,000 workers across the United...
Employment Post Pandemic

Employment Post Pandemic

While not as rapidly changing as it once was, the unemployment situation in America is still a problem due to the pandemic. It seems like everywhere you go, “help wanted” signs are in the windows. Fast food restaurants are advertising for signing bonuses. You may have...
Unemployment Data Update

Unemployment Data Update

Last April, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we released weekly unemployment data with the intention that we would release it until unemployment numbers rose as the world got back to “normal”. At the start of 2021, we pivoted to monthly updates instead of...

Unemployment Estimates after Ten Months

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...

Unemployment Models At Six Months

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...

Unemployment Data Now Available for Download

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...