Case Study: Delivering a better customer experience with EagleView Like most of the economy, clean energy was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic and economic downturn in 2020. At one point more than 600,000 clean energy workers had filed for unemployment, but the sector rebounded strongly after May to recover about half of those jobs to finish the year down 307,000 clean energy workers. The decline in total clean energy employment was the first recorded since E2 began producing its annual Clean Jobs America reports in 2016.
According to the analysis, energy efficiency jobs saw the biggest drop, declining about 11 percent over the year as workers were prevented from entering homes and offices because of the pandemic lockdowns. Still, energy efficiency accounts for an even greater share of U.S. construction jobs, employing about one in every five construction workers nationwide. Other clean energy sectors also saw significant declines in 2020, including renewable energy (6 percent), g
It is no surprise that the pandemic s effects are still being felt one year later, but what is shocking is that small business owners did not think they would be in the same predicament they were in last year when it comes to hiring and staffing potential employees.
By the end of 2018, the unemployment rate in Onslow County sat at an even 5%. As 2019 came to a close, the rate dropped to 3.9% where it hovered around that number for the first few months of 2020. Once the pandemic hit, that number skyrocketed to 12.9% for April and May, before gradually decreasing throughout the remainder of the year.
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U.S. oilfield service companies added 23,000 jobs in March 4/6/2021
The jobs gained last month represent annualized wages of approximately $2.6 billion.
The American oilfield services and equipment sector employment rose by an estimated 23,015 jobs in March, according to preliminary data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and analysis by the Energy Workforce & Technology Council.
Routine BLS revisions reduced lost jobs in February to 7,697 from the 10,048 it reported one month ago. According to the revised data, the sector cut 1,322 positions in January 2021. The sector has been on a rollercoaster the past year with a precipitous drop in jobs due to the pandemic, modest gains in the fourth quarter of 2020, and more cuts in December, January and February.
New Mexico Unemployment Rate January 2021: 8.7 Percent
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New Mexico’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 8.7 percent in January 2021, up from 8.6 percent in December 2020 and up from 5.1 percent in the previous year.
The national unemployment rate in January was 6.3 percent, down from 6.7 percent in December and up from 3.5 percent in January 2020.
Total nonagricultural payroll employment fell by 86,700 jobs, or 10.1 percent, between January 2020 and January 2021.
Most losses came from the private sector, which was down 71,100 jobs, or 10.6 percent. The public sector was down 15,600 jobs, or 8.4 percent.
Losses were reported in both components of the private sector:
The private service-providing industries were down 56,200 jobs, or 10.0 percent, while the goods-producing industries were down 14,900 jobs, representing a decrease of 14.3 percent.