Nevada had the highest unemployment rate among the 50 states in April, w ith nearly one in three of the unemployed civilian workforce, the The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday
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While states have ordered them to stay at home and forced many companies to stop their efforts to fight the coronavirus pandemic, leaving millions of people unemployed, unemployment rates in 43 states have set new records, on the records base. dating back to 1976. In Nevada, where unemployment was 28.2% and in Hawaii, where it was 22.3%, the unemployment rate exceeded previous highs by more than 10 percentage points.
