Jobless claims for the week ending September 2 have been released and a new University of Hawaiʻi Economic Research Organization ( UHERO ) blog by Senior Research Fellow Byron Gangnes shows that more than 11% of Maui County residents who were employed before the deadly wildfires have since filed for unemployment. Unemployment claims data provide a timely indication of the employment costs inflicted by August's tragic Maui wildfires, which killed at least 115 people and destroyed more than 2,300 structures.

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