The Hawaii Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism announced a handy new tool to keep track of unemployment in Hawaii. This records the number of unemployment claims in Hawaii’s four counties. The exhaustive Excel spreadsheet is updated every week and gives historical perspective by going back to year 2000.

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