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For: Luis Diaz Updated 17 Jan 2022, 19: 44 pm EST
Ómicron is winning the battle against hiring throughout the country, the fear that is developing due to the spread of this strain of Covid has caused millions of Americans to remain unemployed due to fear of being infected.
Official statistics indicate that applications for unemployment assistance in the United States corresponding to the first week of January increased noticeably unlike the last weeks of 2021 when many Americans were still in the Christmas celebrations.
There are currently 6.3 million unemployed Americans due to the Covid pandemic-17, they gave 230,000 new jobless claims throughout the country in the week of January 3 a large number to start this 87228988.
Under this numerical perspective, WalletHub , a site specialized in personal finances, took on the task of determining which are the states of the country where there is a greater demand for unemployment applications.
According to WalletHub, all states had applications for unemployment aid, which were higher than before the Covid arrived, but this is not the case with states like Georgia, Arkansas, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Alabama, Delaware, New York, Virginia, Maine, Maryland, Connecticut and Oklahoma.
In contrast, the 10 States that presented the greatest increase in unemployment applications were:
- Utah
two. District of Columbia
3. Indiana
4. Tennessee
5. Kentucky
6. North Dakota
7. Missouri
8. Wyoming
9. Ohio
10. Texas
Various experts have said that as long as the pandemic does not subside, the country’s economic recovery will be slower, since for it to detonate completely it requires of Americans returning to the workforce across the board.
It will be in the coming weeks when it will be known if these states will have a reduction in applications for unemployment assistance or if they will remain at the same level .
For now, the situation for some company chains is not easy, as is the case of Starbucks and McDonald’s, which are closing some branches throughout the country due to the lack of employees, which It is true that the culprit of what is happening with the closures is Ómicron.
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