News in Numbers
The proportion of coronavirus-induced layoffs that are predicted to be permanent, according to a recent survey.
The number of Americans who filed for unemployment last week, the first time the number has dropped below 2 million since the middle of March. This brings the total to almost 43 million filed claims.
The proportion of American workers who were working remotely in May due to concerns over COVID-19, according to a Gallup poll.
The amount that the GoFundMe to support George Floyd’s family in the wake of his death has raised in the five days since it’s been posted. Over 345,000 donors have contributed to the fund.
The amount that New Jersey needs to borrow to offset tax losses resulting from the coronavirus pandemic.
The amount that Washington officials have recovered from the hackers who cyberattacked the state’s unemployment benefits system, but it’s only a partial sum of the total loss due to fraud.
The expected unemployment rate for May as the jobless numbers continue to climb despite states reopening their economies.
The amount that Amtrak has told Congress it would need to be bailed out if it was going to avoid severe cuts to services and routes. The railway company expects passenger demand to halve, dropping down to 16 million by the 2021 budget year.
The April unemployment rate in Nevada, the highest of any state in the country. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said that while 43 states had record-breaking unemployment numbers last month, every state experienced increases in unemployment.
The proportion of Americans who have little to no interest in getting a coronavirus vaccine, according to a Reuters poll. Of those that took the survey, 36 percent said that they would be less willing to receive a vaccine if President Trump said it was safe. Forty percent reported that they believed the vaccine would be riskier than the disease itself.
The number of states that are either entirely or partially open for the first time in nearly two months.
The number of coronavirus deaths that occurred in California’s San Francisco Bay Area during May 17 and May 18. Before May 17, the last day that had no coronavirus-related deaths in the area was March 21.
The number of unemployment claims that the Indiana Department of Workforce Development had to process last week, a significant decrease from previous weeks. During the final week of March, the department received 139,174 claims.
The year by which General Motors plans to power its Spring Hill, Tenn., manufacturing plant with electric power. The car manufacturer hopes to have U.S. GM-owned sites be 100 percent electric-powered by 2030.
The amount that U.S. airlines are collectively wasting each month as Americans have stopped nearly all air travel due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The number of daily travelers through Seattle Tacoma International Airport in March. Before the coronavirus pandemic, there were about 55,000 daily travelers through the Washington airport.
The amount of aid that five state governors are requesting from Congress to help state and local governments manage the economic damage from the coronavirus.
The estimated number of additional people that visited Georgia the week after the state’s shelter-in-place orders were lifted on April 24. Ninety-two percent of those drivers came from four neighboring states: Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina and Florida.
The amount that Uber lost in the first quarter of the year as ride-hailing and travel significantly decreased amid coronavirus fears. The company will offload its scooter business, Jump, and is laying off 3,700 full-time workers.
The total job losses since mid-March that have been attributed to coronavirus and the subsequent lockdown. The unemployment numbers for April will be released today, May 8.
The number of years since the last time that the New York subway system was shut down overnight. The system was closed for thorough disinfecting, and will close each night for the foreseeable future from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. for more disinfecting.
The number of coronavirus cases in the Navajo Nation. Officials have administered a total of 14,351 tests within the community.
The number of nasal swabs, a necessity for COVID-19 testing, that Dr. Jeffrey James is 3-D printing daily at Augusta University’s dental college where he teaches. Dr. James originally had a single printer that produced 300 nasal swabs daily but then was asked to increase the production by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp. Now there are seven printers that run all day to meet the daily amount.
The number of public events (including sports, concerts, races — individual, series and tours) verified by the Washington Post as cancelled, postponed or rescheduled because of the coronavirus even as states work toward reopening local economies.
The number of daily participants on Zoom meetings but not the number of daily users, which is what was previously reported by the video conferencing company. “This was genuine oversight on our part.”
The annual rate at which the U.S. economy shrank last quarter amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the economy will continue to plunge at a 40 percent rate during this quarter.
Proportion of Americans opposed to opening the economy if the coronavirus virus is not fully under control, compared to those in other developed economies — the United Kingdom and Canada (70 percent), followed by Mexico (65 percent), Spain and Australia (61 percent) and the United States (59 percent).
The fine that Facebook agreed to pay to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over the 2018 Cambridge Analytica data breach. The settlement amount was approved last week by a federal judge and is the largest in the FTC’s history.
The number of unemployed workers that filed for benefits in Florida between March 19 and April 21. There were only 13,002 claims filed during all of 2019.
