Pennsylvania Jobless Rate Hits 15.1% As Payrolls Collapse

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate skyrocketed in April at the height of the state’s pandemic-driven shutdown to its highest rate in over four decades of record-keeping, the state Department of Labor and Industry said Friday.
Meanwhile, payrolls fell by more than 1 million to the lowest level in at least three decades.
Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate more than doubled to 15.1% in April, up from 5.8% in March, the department said.
The national rate wa