Pennsylvania is second only to California and before higher-population states like any and Texas within the number of initial jobless claims its state unemployment office received between March 15 and April 18.

Nearly 1.5 million Pennsylvanians filed initial jobless claims during the primary five weeks that widespread social distancing orders were adopted, beginning in mid-March. California saw quite double those claims, at quite 3.3 million – but no other state came on the brink of topping Pennsylvania. New York, which in recent weeks became the epicenter of the outbreak, recorded the third-most unemployment filings nationally, with about 100,000 fewer claims than Pennsylvania.

Roughly 30 million Americans – or nearly 1 in 5 workers who had employment in February – have filed for unemployment in recent weeks. And even that total likely undersells truth scope of the country’s coronavirus-induced unemployment crisis. Many Americans are either unwilling or unable to say benefits, and therefore, the rapid influx of requests has sometimes created backlogs at state unemployment offices.

It is perhaps unsurprising that jobless claims are highest in a number of the country’s most populous states. California, Texas, and Florida have the most important labor forces within the country, and Pennsylvania ranks fifth.

Nine of the ten states that recorded the most crucial number of jobless claims since mid-March also rank among the ten states with the most important labor forces. The exception is North Carolina, which has the country’s ninth-largest labor pool and has seen the 13th-most jobless claims in recent weeks.

Wyoming, South Dakota, North Dakota, Vermont, and Alaska recorded the fewest claims, and everyone are among the smallest amount populous states within the country.

Taking an individual state’s labor pool under consideration paints a clearer picture of which states are struggling the foremost relative to their size. Hawaii and its tourism-dependent economy are highest at nearly 26%. Quite 1 in 5 workers have filed for unemployment since mid-March in Hawaii, Kentucky, Michigan, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Georgia, and Louisiana.

Similarly to Pennsylvania, Michigan has also seen both an outsized number of total filings and an outsized share of its workforce seeking benefits. Michigan ranks fifth in terms of gross filings and third within the percentage of its workforce that has sought assistance. Ohio and Kentucky are among several other states in and around the Rust Belt to ascertain unemployment soar in recent weeks.

At the other end of the spectrum, only 6% of South Dakota’s labor pool has filed for unemployment during the coronavirus, ranking slightly better than Utah, Wyoming, Texas, and Nebraska. Although Texas is among the most important and most populous states within the country, only 9% of its workers, or 1.3 million people, have filed for unemployment since mid-March. However, that’s still a rise of roughly 1,900% from an equivalent five weeks a year ago.