jobless claims

The Bad News You may be wondering where the good news is hiding given the string of bad news on Oklahoma unemployment claims so far in the slowdown. In the most recent data released this morning, the state posted its…

COVID 19-related layoffs are varying widely across the states. A useful measure of the severity of layoffs to date is total initial jobless claims in the first four weeks of the slowdown (from March 20 to April 10) as a…