In just nine weeks, 38.6 million have sought jobless benefits.
About 2.4 million Americans filed initial unemployment benefit claims last week, the Labor Department said Thursday, as the health and economic crisis sparked by the coronavirus ruptures a growing number of industries.
The latest claims tally was down from the 3 million who filed claims the week before, and the record 6.9 million who sought assistance in late March. Initial applications for unemployment insurance have now steadily declined seven weeks in a row. "In only nine weeks, unemployment claims made during the coronavirus crisis have already exceeded the 37 million claims made over the entire 18 months of the Great Recession,'' Daniel Zhao, senior economist for the jobs site Glassdoor, said in a statement."While recent indicators show the initial steep job declines are slowing, the labor market remains in a deep hole it will have to climb out of.
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