Over  https://www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2020/indian-country-small-businesses-face-strong-headwinds-in-covid-19recovery; Casey Lozar, Donna Feir, and James Robert Colombe, “COVID-19: A Deep Economic Crisis in Indian Country,” Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, May 13, 2020, https://www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2020/covid19-a-deep-economic-crisis-in-indian-country; and Casey Lozar, Donna Feir, and James Robert Colombe, “COVID19 and Indian Country: Early Snapshot Reveals Disproportionate Economic Exposure and Uncertainty,” Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, April 10, 2020, https://www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2020/covid-19-and-indiancountry-early-snapshot-reveals-disproportionate-economic-exposure-and-uncertainty.
And employment has been growing strongly, taking the national unemployment rate down to an 18-year low of just under 7%. Nova Scotia’s economy has also done well this past year, both in terms of output and employment growth. Indeed, when it comes to job creation through the year (that is, December 1999 over December 1998), Nova Scotia has done better than the national average.