Monthly Multiplier: EIG's May Highlights One Big Thing While overall national jobs numbers continue to inch upward, more granular data at the state and sectoral levels reveal a startling trend across the country: healthcare jobs in many states are booming, but most other sectors are stagnant. “And no state appears as reliant on the healthcare and social assistance sector to support its labor market,” write EIG senior fellow Kenan Fikri and research associate Thomas Cronin, “as the nation’s most.