![]() ![]() ![]() Leibert said she designed the online data tool to help lawmakers and other policy makers understand who the most vulnerable workers are for long-term unemployment - because current forecasts are that many will not be able to get to work easily. “What I tried to do is figure out who are going to be our next customers because there are going to be a lot of vulnerable customers needing retraining,” she said. The notion that there are stubbornly in-trouble sectors of the economy - along with their corresponding workers - is striking because the state’s overall economy is recovering faster than many foresaw. State economists and budget officials recently concluded that spending, business investment and real estate values had been more robust than predicted at the onset of the pandemic, flipping a projected state budget deficit into a surplus. ![]() Here are five takeaways from the state’s unemployment data. ![]()
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