Another 6.6 million people filed for unemployment last week as coronavirus continues to ravage the economy by theothersarahh
that these numbers may even be too low: Florida and Texas only closed nonessential businesses in the middle of last week, so the full effect of the shutdown there might not show up in data until next week.
The data also doesn’t account for the workers who have been unable to successfully file claims because of the overwhelming volume of requests in state employment offices.Before the current crisis, the most weekly claims ever recorded was 695,000 in 1982. In March 2009, during the height of the financial crisis, claims reached 665,000.
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