Which states are recovering from unemployment claims the quickest?

South Dakota and South Carolina are experiencing the quickest workforce recovery since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and Vermont and Alaska are experiencing the slowest, according to an analysis by WalletHub, a personal finance website.

To identify which states' workforces are experiencing the quickest recovery from COVID-19, WalletHub compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia based on changes in unemployment claims for several key benchmark weeks.

Here are the states in order of whose unemployment claims are recovering the quickest:

1. South Dakota
2. South Carolina
3. New Hampshire
4. North Carolina
5. Kansas
6. Florida
7. Arizona
8. Minnesota
9. Pennsylvania
10. Washington
11. Maine
12. New Jersey
13. Arkansas
14. Michigan
15. Nebraska
16. Louisiana
17. Illinois
18. Iowa
19. Indiana
20. Kentucky
21. Hawaii
22. Missouri
23. North Dakota
24. Maryland
25. Georgia
26. Mississippi
27. Tennessee
28. Montana
29. Colorado
30. California
31. Massachusetts
32. Connecticut
33. Alabama
34. Nevada
35. New York
36. Oregon
37. Wisconsin
38. New Mexico
39. Utah
40. District of Columbia
41. Ohio
42. Virginia
43. Wyoming
44. Texas
45. Idaho
46. Oklahoma
47. Rhode Island
48. Delaware
49. West Virginia
50. Alaska
51. Vermont