United States Unemployment Rate - During Covid-19 Pandemic
												2020 - 2021
	2020												2021
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
New Cases										39,541	104,371	353,243	375,179	185,822	71,951	61,087	42,211	40,740	54,565	136,843	41,582	90,281	302,666	592,239
RATE	3.6	3.5	4.4	14.7	13.3	11.1	10.2	8.4	7.9	6.9	6.7	6.7	6.3	6.2	6.0	6.1	5.8	5.9	5.4	5.2	4.8	4.6	4.2	3.9
	source:
	https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000																		* 2022 no longer tracking this metric