Hawaiʻi is among just a handful of locations in the U.S. that still have fewer jobs than it did before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Louisiana, Maryland and Washington, D.C., are the only other areas in the nation that have yet to recover to their pre-COVID job numbers, according to the latest forecast report from the University of Hawaiʻi’s Economic Research Organization.
As of July, the number of payroll jobs in the state was still about 3.5% short of where it was before the pandemic, said UHERO economist Carl Bonham…