Jobs data show two post-COVID Americas

Published July 9, 2022 4:01am ET



The Labor Department announced on Friday that the economy had recovered another 372,000 net jobs in June from the many jobs lost during COVID. But with the nation likely hurtling toward a declaration of recession, there’s a lot more to the story than these national numbers, for the fact is, those jobs are not being added back evenly throughout the 50 states.

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