TED: The Economics Daily

In February 2024, quits rates (the number of quits during the entire month as a percentage of total employment) were above 3.0 percent in 6 states: Alaska (3.9 percent), Montana (3.6 percent), Idaho (3.2 percent), and Florida, South Carolina, and Wyoming (3.1 percent each). Among these states, the number of quits ranged from 9,000 in Wyoming to 303,000 in Florida. Nationally, there were 3,484,000 quits in February, and the U.S. quits rate was 2.2 percent.

Among all private industry workers participating in medical care plans, 51 percent were participating in high deductible health plans in 2023. Across occupational groups, 49 percent of management, professional, and related workers and 58 percent of natural resources, construction, and maintenance workers participated in high deductible health plans.

April 28 marks Workers Memorial Day, a day of remembrance for those killed, injured, or disabled on the job. In 2022, 5,486 workers suffered fatal work injuries in the United States.

Individuals born in the early 1980s were employed for 76 percent of all the weeks from ages 18 to 36. They were unemployed for 5 percent of those weeks and not in the labor force (neither working nor seeking work) for 19 percent. As a group, individuals with higher educational attainment were employed for a larger percentage of weeks and unemployed for a smaller percentage of weeks than individuals with less education.