Growth is slowing; government jobs due to the Census drove the largest increases.

In the year before the pandemic hit, 92% of people in the US had health insurance, with employment-based insurance as the most prevalent coverage type.

About 13.6 million people remained unemployed in August. Job losses are becoming permanent; temporary layoffs are no longer causing the majority of unemployment.

This month's look at the pandemic focuses on hospital beds, unemployment benefits, and consumer spending. It also shows how the virus is infecting more people in states that previously had few cases.

Union membership has steadily decreased over the past several decades, though membership is much higher in the public sector than the private.

The presidential candidates addressed COVID-19 and healthcare, immigration, record unemployment, and tax reform in their convention speeches. Here’s what the data says on these key issues.

The largest gains were in the leisure and hospitality, plus government sectors.

A look at data during Black Business Month shows that Black Americans own 2.2% of the nation’s 6 million businesses with employees.

Black and Hispanic Americans generally experience higher levels of unemployment, but they have lost 1.4 times as many jobs, proportionally, than white Americans since February due to the pandemic.

This month’s COVID-19 case and economic recovery data reveals how cases have grown in different parts of the country, the number of children who have contracted coronavirus, and economic indicators like consumer spending and employment.