Since mid-March, the coronavirus pandemic has eliminated nearly 39 million jobs in the U.S., reversing historic unemployment lows and turning them into nearly historic highs.

Financial writer Adam McCann noted last week on Wallethub.com that, in total, 14.7 percent of Americans are unemployed as of April 2020, compared to around 25 percent during the Great Depression. “The difference from the Great Depression, though, is that the job losses appear to be largely short-term,” McCann observed. “Most people who became unemployed during this crisis have only been temporarily laid off, and expect to be rehired by their former employers once companies reopen and start to make money again. However, it will take far more time for us to reduce the unemployment rate to pre-pandemic levels than it did for the virus to reverse over a decade of job growth.

In order to identify the states with the biggest increases in unemployment rates, WalletHub compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia based on three key metrics. WalletHub looked at the change in each state’s unemployment rate during the latest month for which we have data (April 2020) compared to April 2019 and January 2020. They also considered each state’s overall unemployment rate. This monthly report is a companion to WalletHub’s report on the States Hit Most by Unemployment Claims, which examines unemployment claims on a weekly basis. Click here for additional results.