US map of states with most employment, pandemic insurance recipients - Business Insider

In response to the novel coronavirus pandemic and the resulting recession, Congress included a $600 per week supplement to unemployment insurance as part of the CARES Act stimulus package in March.

A Bank of America analysis noted that the lapse in benefits, combined with the roughly 30 million Americans still laid off and receiving unemployment insurance, could lead to a huge collapse in aggregate income.

As the expanded benefits lapsed, roughly 28 million Americans across the 50 states and DC were still receiving unemployment benefits as of July 11, according to the most recent weekly non-seasonally adjusted figures from the Department of Labor released Thursday

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