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Who was impacted most at the beginning of the pandemic?
This map shows the increase in metro unemployment rates from April 2019 to April 2020.
Areas in yellow and orange were hit hardest during the onset of the pandemic.
Data source: Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) data on labor force, employment population, unemployment population, and unemployment
rates pulled from most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics Local Area Unemployment (LAU) data sets. (Last Update: 05/13/21)