{"id":1411,"date":"2020-09-17T09:46:16","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T09:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nixq4qvp95-staging.onrocket.site\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2022-08-10T13:51:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T13:51:00","slug":"which-states-are-leading-the-recovery-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.com\/blog\/which-states-are-leading-the-recovery-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Which states are leading the recovery in the US?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our latest job vacancy numbers for the USA show that we\u2019re within striking distance of the pre-pandemic levels. Having fallen from over 4 million to just 2.1 million vacancies at the end of April, here in September the overall number has recovered back to 3.6 million. The unemployment rate (which lags behind our real-time numbers) says that unemployment ballooned up from 4% to over 14%, and has since fallen to 8.4%. It would be misleading to say that we\u2019re back to \u201cnormal\u201d but we\u2019re a lot closer than we were.<\/span><\/p>\n

We last looked at states at the tail end of July, but we thought it is appropriate to revisit as it\u2019s a matter of weeks until the Presidential election. The number of people in work is likely to have an effect on votes. If you are out of a job because of the pandemic and the government\u2019s handling of it, you may – rightly or wrongly – feel more negative to the incumbent government than you had before.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve taken a look at battleground states and how they\u2019ve recovered to see if this gives any indication of what\u2019s happening.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The national picture<\/b><\/p>\n

Of the 16 countries Adzuna operates in, the USA is somewhere in the middle in terms of recovery. We\u2019ve compared it here to some comparable large countries, and it sits right in the middle here. As the nearest neighboring country, Canada\u2019s job numbers are above where they were over the first 7 weeks of the year. The UK fell further and is recovering slower, Germany had a much shallower dip, and is just below normal levels, while Brazil is continuing to fall.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile the US fell almost as far and fast as the UK, but has recovered its job vacancies much quicker. Although it\u2019s fallen away over the past few weeks, the pattern has broadly been a large growth in numbers one week followed by a corrective week the next.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n