California had the highest number of people filing unemployment insurance claims during the week of April 4, according to the most recent data available from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
The data is based on an analysis of unemployment insurance weekly claims data from the U.S. Department of Labor, which administers unemployment insurance jointly with individual states. Kaiser Family Foundation has tracked these claims on a weekly basis to get a sense of emerging unemployment.
Here are the U.S. states and the District of Columbia, ranked by number of people filing unemployment insurance claims during the week of April 4:
1. California: 918,814
2. Georgia: 390,132
3. Michigan: 388,554
4. New York: 344,451
5. Texas: 315,167
6. Pennsylvania: 277,640
7. Ohio: 226,191
8. New Jersey: 214,836
9. Illinois: 201,041
10. Washington: 171,252
11. Florida: 169,885
12. Virginia: 147,369
13. Massachusetts: 139,647
14. North Carolina: 137,422
15. Arizona: 132,428
16. Indiana: 127,010
17. Kentucky: 117,575
18. Tennessee: 112,186
19. Minnesota: 110,260
20. Maryland: 109,496
21. Alabama: 106,739
22. Wisconsin: 104,823
23. Louisiana: 100,621
24. Missouri: 91,458
25. South Carolina: 86,573
26. Nevada: 79,285
27. Iowa: 64,194
28. Oregon: 62,788
29. Arkansas: 62,086
30. Oklahoma: 60,534
31. Hawaii: 53,101
32. Kansas: 49,306
33. Colorado: 46,326
34. Mississippi: 45,852
35. New Hampshire: 39,202
36. Connecticut: 33,464
37. Utah: 33,040
38. Maine: 30,910
39. Idaho: 30,904
40. Rhode Island: 28,243
41. Nebraska: 27,054
42. New Mexico: 26,132
43. Montana: 21,244
44. Delaware: 18,851
45. Vermont: 16,474
46. District of Columbia: 15,329
47. North Dakota: 15,125
48. Alaska: 14,590
49. West Virginia: 14,494
50. South Dakota: 8,138
51. Wyoming: 6,543
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