Employment is back at or above pre-pandemic levels in a dozen U.S. states.
Compared with February 2020, Arizona has added the most nonfarm jobs on its payrolls, followed by Florida, Utah, Wisconsin and Oregon, according to December data released Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
In an additional 20 states, plus the District of Columbia, payrolls are within 50,000 jobs of recovering.
The remaining states are collectively missing about 3.5 million jobs, concentrated in three of the most populous states -- California, New York and Pennsylvania -- as well as Michigan. California alone is about 750,000 below its ...
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