{"id":6886,"date":"2021-08-24T12:18:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T12:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/?p=6886"},"modified":"2021-08-24T12:19:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T12:19:18","slug":"high-unemployment-theres-a-reason-for-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/24\/high-unemployment-theres-a-reason-for-that\/","title":{"rendered":"High unemployment? There&#8217;s a reason for that."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-from-2021-08-24-07-16-55.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6887\" width=\"694\" height=\"949\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-from-2021-08-24-07-16-55.png 555w, https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-from-2021-08-24-07-16-55-219x300.png 219w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 694px) 100vw, 694px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/web\/laus\/laumstrk.htm\">data<\/a>\u00a0from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the highest unemployment rates in July were in blue states. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the flow of federal COVID-19 bailouts for the last year and a half, these states saw significantly higher rates of unemployment than the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncsl.org\/research\/labor-and-employment\/national-employment-monthly-update.aspx\">national rate<\/a>\u00a0of 5.4 percent in July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nevada topped out the list with a 7.7 rate of unemployment for July and was closely followed by California (7.6 percent), New Mexico (7.6 percent), New York (7.6 percent), Connecticut (7.3 percent), Hawaii (7.3 percent), New Jersey (7.3 percent), Illinois (7.1 percent), and the District of Columbia (6.7 percent). All are Democrat-run. As tyrannical lockdowns are being lifted and businesses start to reopen, Democrat states are seeing some job growth but still have a long road to recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to new\u00a0data\u00a0from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the highest unemployment rates in July were in blue states. Despite the flow of federal COVID-19 bailouts for the last year and a half, these states saw significantly higher rates of unemployment than the\u00a0national rate\u00a0of 5.4 percent in July. Nevada topped out the list with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6889,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6886\/revisions\/6889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}