Some data on COVID benefits vs. unemployment

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I did not expect this result: of the 24 states planning to drop the $300/wk COVID unemployment benefits, over half actually have relatively low unemployment rates. Five of the seventeen have unemployment under 3% (marked with a star, above)

Looking past the red state / blue state haze, it looks like some (most?) of the states opting out early... may not... need the relief as much? I still don't understand why a state wouldn't just take it anyway but at least the data suggests an alignment between their refusals and the reality that the funding isn't as urgently needed?

Surprising, real world data showing non-political truths of a sort.

Sources:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sap/2021/05/27/cargills-digital-transformation-drives-people-first-strategy/?sh=11618b786ec5

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/unemployment-rate-by-state

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cricketHunter

I found this data similarly fascinating: https://mobile.twitter.com/youyanggu/status/1397230156301930497

4 years ago |

Great data find, thanks! Similar findings, similarly surprised. I find myself unwinding some assumptions here.... hmm.

LazerBeamButtHole

This is just as everyone expected isn’t it?

Maybe? The narrative I hear from family is any state refusing is also vaccinated and high unemployment, so kinda painted with a red brush 1/

Sorry! "any state refusing is also UN-vaccinated and high unemployment."

which is why I was surprised to see the opposite around unemployment. Stopping unempl. aid where unempl is low makes sense, on paper 2/

so the family had to swallow a bit of a bitter pill with that reality. They are strongly aligned with CNBC, NYT, less so CNN so seeing 3/

the bias from "the other narrative" was a bit novel. I like data, so looking at that without the red/blue filters is kinda fun for me.

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