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Why Massachusetts has the highest
unemployment rate in the country
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If you want to understand why Massachusetts has the highest unemployment rate in the country, a good place to start is dress shirts.
Christa Hagearty, owner of Dependable Cleaners, once considered laundering men’s and women’s work shirts as “recession proof.” But that hasn’t held up in the era of coronavirus and video conferencing: Revenue from Oxfords and poplin tops is down 68 percent from pre-pandemic levels as professionals continue to work from home — and leave their office clothes untouched in the closet.
COVID-19, which hit here early and hard, has disrupted the state’s economic equilibrium in ways other recessions didn’t. Governor Charlie Baker’s decision to shut down earlier than most states — and reopen more cautiously — slowed the virus’s spread but at a high cost: a nation-leading jobless rate of 16.1 percent in July.
Read the full story at BostonGlobe.com.
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