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STATS obtained by me @XantheScharff @FullerProject show in several states, during the last 2 weeks of March, women became majority of total unemployment claims, surging 13 to 35 percentage points above the norm: https://bit.ly/3bVf77k
STATS obtained by me @XantheScharff @FullerProject show in several states, during the last 2 weeks of March, women became majority of total unemployment claims, surging 13 to 35 percentage points above the norm: https://bit.ly/3bVf77k
2/We asked dozens of states for these stats. All 5 that provided them saw huge shifts, indicating a broader national trend. As you can see from my (rudimentary) chart, this is highly unusual:
- Red dots = % claimants
post-covid
- Teal dots = % insuredpre-covid, 1995-2020
- Red dots = % claimants
post-covid- Teal dots = % insured
pre-covid, 1995-2020
3/But the Labor Dept is not collecting demographic details of new unemployment claims filed March 15-28, even though states have this data in their systems right now. (Note: This is not the same as the "jobs report" surveys, which also didn't cover first weeks of crisis.)
4/This economic crisis is different, driven by health concerns, not normal economic forces. And the blows — from the responsibility to care for children suddenly out of school to the type of jobs seeing the most cuts — seem to be hitting women much harder.
5/We couldn’t get stats broken down by gender & race & ethnicity. For some reason, unemployment insurance data is currently only broken down by 1 variable at a time 
But the data COULD tell us if women of color are even more disproportionately impacted by job losses.
But the data COULD tell us if women of color are even more disproportionately impacted by job losses.
6/The data could also tell us WHY people lost their job, such as if it was just to take care of kids suddenly home from school. Given that women are more likely to shoulder burden of childcare, and paid leave is being discussed, we should know if this is a big reason.
7/Then there are the millions of under-the-table workers, predominantly women and people of color, now in financial peril, who aren't being tracked, and won't benefit from the relief packages. Some alarming stats from a new @domesticworkers survey: https://twitter.com/aijenpoo/status/1247928671060537345?s=20
8/We are calling for the US Labor Dept to collect and make public more detalied unemployment claims data, on weekly basis, so billions of dollars in economic relief spending gets to the people who need it most.
9/Here are some extra stats from New York, New Jersey, Virginia, and Oregon. New York and Virginia will start making this a weekly release, and hopefully more states if we all make a push 
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6828025-Virginia-Unemployment-Claims-Data-March28-Final.html
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6828025-Virginia-Unemployment-Claims-Data-March28-Final.html
