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Nevada Leads the Way in National Unemployment at 28.2 Percent
Wolf Richter of Wolf Street released a piece on May 22, 2020 highlighting national unemployment statistics.
According to Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rates for states in April ranged from “7.9% in Connecticut to a catastrophic 28.2% in Nevada.”
Richter noted that in Nevada’s case “the casinos and shows and hotels and everything that comes along with them have been put on ice, and people in the US and from around the world aren’t traveling to Nevada anymore to gamble.”
Additionally, Hawaii, another with a sizeable tourist industry, saw its unemployment rate skyrocket from 2.6 percent in March to 22.3 percent in April.
Richter outline what the unemployment scenario looked like in other states:
The unemployment rates of the big four states – they account for one-third of the total US population – are in the same double-digit middle-of-road-ish horrible range, middle-of-road within the spectrum from 7.9% to 28.2%, with unemployment rates of 12.8% in Texas, 12.9% in Florida, 14.5% in New York, and 15.5% in California.
The financial blogger posted a table showing the unemployment rates for each state in April (second column), along with the right by the rates of “partial-Covid” March (third column) and pre-Wuhan virus February (fourth column). The states are ordered from the lowest unemployment rate to the highest unemployment rate.
The state’s population (according to census 2019 estimates), which is stated in millions, is represented in the fifth column on the right.
State |
Apr |
Mar |
Feb |
Pop. |
| Connecticut | 7.9 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 3.6 |
| Minnesota | 8.1 | 3.1 | 3.1 | 5.6 |
| Nebraska | 8.3 | 4.2 | 2.9 | 1.9 |
| North Dakota | 8.5 | 2.2 | 3.6 | 0.8 |
| Wyoming | 9.2 | 3.7 | 3.5 | 0.6 |
| Utah | 9.7 | 3.6 | 3.5 | 3.2 |
| Missouri | 9.7 | 4.5 | 3.5 | 6.1 |
| Maryland | 9.9 | 3.3 | 3.3 | 6.0 |
| South Dakota | 10.2 | 3.3 | 2.5 | 0.9 |
| Arkansas | 10.2 | 4.8 | 3.5 | 3.0 |
| Iowa | 10.2 | 3.7 | 2.8 | 3.2 |
| Maine | 10.6 | 3.2 | 3.2 | 1.3 |
| Virginia | 10.6 | 3.3 | 2.4 | 8.5 |
| Kansas | 11.2 | 3.1 | 3.1 | 2.9 |
| Montana | 11.3 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 1.1 |
| New Mexico | 11.3 | 5.9 | 4.8 | 2.1 |
| Colorado | 11.3 | 4.5 | 2.5 | 5.8 |
| Idaho | 11.5 | 2.6 | 2.7 | 1.8 |
| Georgia | 11.9 | 4.2 | 3.1 | 10.6 |
| South Carolina | 12.1 | 2.6 | 3.4 | 5.1 |
| North Carolina | 12.2 | 4.4 | 3.4 | 10.5 |
| Arizona | 12.6 | 5.5 | 4.5 | 7.3 |
| Texas | 12.8 | 4.7 | 3.4 | 29.0 |
| Alaska | 12.9 | 5.6 | 5.8 | 0.7 |
| Alabama | 12.9 | 3.5 | 2.7 | 4.9 |
| Florida | 12.9 | 4.3 | 2.8 | 21.5 |
| Oklahoma | 13.7 | 3.1 | 4.1 | 4.0 |
| Wisconsin | 14.1 | 3.4 | 4.9 | 5.8 |
| Oregon | 14.2 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 4.2 |
| Delaware | 14.3 | 5.1 | 3.9 | 1.0 |
| Louisiana | 14.5 | 6.9 | 5.2 | 4.6 |
| New York | 14.5 | 4.5 | 3.7 | 19.5 |
| Tennessee | 14.7 | 3.5 | 3.3 | 6.8 |
| Massachusetts | 15.1 | 2.9 | 2.8 | 6.9 |
| Pennsylvania | 15.1 | 6.0 | 3.3 | 12.8 |
| West Virginia | 15.2 | 6.1 | 2.6 | 1.8 |
| New Jersey | 15.3 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 8.9 |
| Mississippi | 15.4 | 5.3 | 5.4 | 3.0 |
| Kentucky | 15.4 | 5.8 | 4.2 | 4.5 |
| Washington | 15.4 | 5.1 | 2.6 | 7.6 |
| California | 15.5 | 5.3 | 3.9 | 39.5 |
| Vermont | 15.6 | 3.2 | 2.5 | 0.6 |
| New Hampshire | 16.3 | 2.6 | 2.6 | 1.4 |
| Illinois | 16.4 | 4.6 | 3.4 | 12.7 |
| Ohio | 16.8 | 5.5 | 2.2 | 11.7 |
| Indiana | 16.9 | 3.2 | 3.1 | 6.7 |
| Rhode Island | 17.0 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 1.1 |
| Hawaii | 22.3 | 2.6 | 2.7 | 1.4 |
| Michigan | 22.7 | 4.1 | 3.6 | 10.0 |
| Nevada | 28.2 | 6.3 | 3.6 | 3.1 |
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Southern Baptist Convention Reverses Course on Name Change After BLP Reporting
They say they’re not changing their name.
The Southern Baptist Convention has sought to dispel reporting from Big League Politics on the organization’s planned name change, arguing that the institution isn’t formally changing its name.
To correct multiple inaccurate reports, “We Are Great Commission Baptists” is the 2021 Annual Meeting THEME.
The GCB descriptor was approved in 2012 for churches to use if it would be helpful in their local context.
The Southern Baptist Convention remains our official name.
— SBC Executive Committee (@SBCExecComm) September 17, 2020
But a close look at the American Christian church’s plans relating to its name reveal that it’s played with the idea far more seriously than they’re making it seem.
Reports of a name change first emerged in a Washington Post article published on Tuesday. SBC President JD Greear told the Post that “hundreds of churches” affiliated with the denomination had “committed” to using the phrase “Great Commission Baptist” as an alternative to the denomination’s longtime moniker. The change would come as Greear touts his support of the Black Lives Matter, although he’s been careful in pointing out he doesn’t support any formal organization related to the movement. Greear also is renaming the church he personally pastors with the term.
The SBC’s 2021 convention will also organize under the motto of “We Are Great Commission Baptists.” Sounds a lot like a name change, even if the SBC’s leadership is steadfastly maintaining it isn’t.
The name ‘Great Commission Baptist’ is theologically sound in the Christian religion, but it’s somewhat questionable that the organization’s leader appears to be emphasizing it at a moment in which political correctness is making its entryism into many Christian churches and organizations.
It seems as if the organization’s figurehead is keen to present himself as a liberal-style suburban Evangelical to the Washington Post, but he changed his tune quite quickly when the rank and file membership of Southern Baptist churches learned that he was promoting the idea of a name change.
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