Brookings used those projections to see how growth differs from the baseline in different states. Tourism-heavy states, like Nevada, see the biggest percent differences. DC and Massachusetts may experience smaller changes to their employment growth because of the pandemic than other states, based on a new Brookings report. Mark Muro, senior fellow and policy director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings, and research assistant Yang You looked at how employment may change across the US over 10 years. The analysis is based on the Bureau of Labor Statistics' recent projections that consider how the pandemic may affect employment. The two alternate scenario projections from BLS take into account how potential changes in business and consumer behavior from the pandemic may affect employment in the long term.