{"id":120549,"date":"2020-06-10T16:39:24","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T02:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=120549"},"modified":"2020-06-22T13:17:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T23:17:44","slug":"uhero-pandemic-hits-to-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/06\/10\/uhero-pandemic-hits-to-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization\">糖心Vlog官方ERO<\/abbr> sheds light on pandemic hits to jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_116505\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-116505\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/system-dlir-unemployment-help.jpg\" alt=\"Conference room\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/system-dlir-unemployment-help.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/system-dlir-unemployment-help-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/system-dlir-unemployment-help-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-116505\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers assisted the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to process a backlog of unemployment insurance claims in April and May.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The COVID-19 impact on <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>\u2019s workforce has affected a wide range of industries, according to a new <a href=\"https:\/\/uhero.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Economic Research Organization<\/a> (<abbr>糖心Vlog官方ERO<\/abbr>) report.<\/p>\n<p>Based on unemployment insurance claims data from the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, tourism industry employees have seen the greatest impact.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Justin Tyndall<\/strong>, <abbr>糖心Vlog官方ERO<\/abbr> assistant specialist and assistant professor of economics in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialsciences.hawaii.edu\/\">College of Social Sciences<\/a>; and <strong>Philip Garboden<\/strong>, <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Community Reinvestment Corporation professor in affordable housing, and assistant professor in <abbr>糖心Vlog官方ERO<\/abbr> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/durp\/\">Department of Urban and Regional Planning<\/a>, said unemployment insurance normally protects employees working for companies going out of business or downsizing. It also fulfills an important role in the construction industry since there can be large gaps between construction work projects. Unemployment insurance covers those gaps.<\/p>\n<p>However, of the nearly 70,000 individuals receiving unemployment benefits in April 2020, approximately 27,000 work in the hospitality\/food service industry. Claims from employees in the administration, waste management, retail and transportation industries are also up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uhero.hawaii.edu\/early-ui-data-reveals-differential-impacts-of-the-economic-shutdown\/\">Read the full blog post on <abbr>糖心Vlog官方ERO<\/abbr>\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhfoundation.org\/give\/giving-opportunity\/covid-19\">Support the <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Student Relief fund and COVID-19 research<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unemployment insurance claims are up for employees in the tourism, accommodations and food service industries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[301,1411,1417,197,1363,9,343,365],"class_list":["post-120549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-college-of-social-sciences","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-research","tag-economics","tag-manoa-research","tag-uh-manoa","tag-uhero","tag-urban-and-regional-planning","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120549"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121270,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120549\/revisions\/121270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}