The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the economy added 943,000 jobs in July. According to the NC Department of Commerce, North Carolina lost almost 900 thousand workers at the peak of the COVID-19 recession, but only a fraction of those workers looked for another job.
Now many of those workers will stop receiving additional unemployment benefits allotted to help during the pandemic in less than a month. In South Carolina, Governor Henry McMaster chose to end those benefits early -- on June 30th.
Now there are signs that overall things are going well in South Carolina. Gov. McMaster ended additional unemployment benefits on June 30th – since then unemployment claims in the state dropped by 60 percent, according to data from the South Carolina Department of Workforce and Employment.
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