New York City has suffered the most job losses than any other major American city over the past year amid the COVID-19 pandemic, data shows.
The city has seen an 11.8 percent decline in jobs between February 2020 and April this year, according to data from the Center for New York City Affairs at the New School.
That figure is three times the loss experienced across the United States in total, the data, which was obtained by the New York Times, shows. The country, in total, saw a decline of 4.3 percent in jobs during that same period.
Of the 20 largest cities in the country, San Francisco (10.5 percent) and Los Angeles (10.3 percent) suffered similar job loss declines to New York City.
New York City has seen an 11.8% decline in jobs between February 2020 and April this year, data from the Center for New York City Affairs shows
Philadelphia saw a 9 percent decline in jobs, while Chicago saw a 6.7 percent decline.
The job losses in cities in Texas and Florida, which were still down, were vastly different.
Austin saw a 1.5 percent decline in jobs between February last year and April this year.
In Florida, the city of Jacksonville saw a 1.6 percent decline.
While the US has recovered about two-thirds of the jobs lost since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, New York City had only recovered 41 percent as of April, according to the data.
It leaves a deficit of more than 500,000 jobs in the Big Apple.
Only San Francisco and Los Angeles have been slower that New York in gaining back the jobs lost during the pandemic.
Ten cities - mostly in the South and Southwest - had already regained more than 70 percent of their pandemic job losses as of April.
While the US has recovered about two-thirds of the jobs lost since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, New York City had only recovered 41 percent as of April, according to the data
Despite all COVID-19 restrictions being lifted in New York City last week, the toll of the pandemic is still evident with many businesses forced to shut down last year
States like New York and California enforced stricter lockdown measures than others, such as Florida and Texas.
More than 3.5 million Americans were still collecting traditional state unemployment benefits as of last week, according to the latest Labor Department report.
The Labor Department said on Thursday that the number of
