evidence: 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. There have been 10,448 new claims for unemployment in Maui County in the four weeks since the fires struck, about 9,900 more than the preceding four weeks. This represents more than 11% of those who were employed before the wildfires in Maui County. More on how to help Maui ʻohana and the Maui wildfires.