Deep Dive into June Recovery Job Losses/Gains

Since the COVID Event started, The US has had over 46M unemployment claims and lost 12.9 million jobs. The good news is that in the last two months over 7.3M people have returned to work. The bad news is we have 12.9M more to go. In June we had 5.8M Unemployment claims and added 4.8M jobs back. Regardless, lets exam where some of these job gains and losses are occurring. Below are the industry categories that have seen the largest job gains since February: Industry Category Jobs Gains Since February General merchandise stores, including warehouse clubs and supercenters 208,000 Building [...]