366,566 Minnesotans filed for unemployment between March 16 and last night

that& #39;s 12% of the state workforce, and, unless the number of unemployed people dropped considerably between Feb. 15 and March 15, it means the unemployment rate in the state is currently around 15%

@mndeed has a data tool up where you can do some limited analysis of the unemployment filings. The occupation data is difficult to interpret, imho, but the demographic data is interesting... https://mn.gov/deed/data/data-tools/unemployment-insurance-statistics/">https://mn.gov/deed/data...

62%, or 226k, of the filings come from workers with less than 2 years of college education.

56% of those filing are female, 44% male, a reality that @jessvanb addressed earlier this week https://www.startribune.com/on-front-lines-women-feel-covid-19-s-sting/569409172/">https://www.startribune.com/on-front-...

when it comes to race, there doesn& #39;t appear to be a disproportionate impact in the data. Black, Hispanic, American Indian and Asian unemployment filings are all, as a percentage, less than their share of the state& #39;s population.