Nearly 1.5 Million Americans File Unemployment Claims

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WASHINGTON (AP) — 1.48 million laid-off workers seek US jobless aid, a 12th straight weekly drop, even as virus threat intensifies.

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  1. This won’t end until Trump is gone.

  2. In trump world, there all liberals, anarchists, lowlifes, criminals, non- whites looking for a free ride off the government.
    He’s working on fixing the problem.
    stop funding unemployment and let the states get screwed by all those anti- american s
    who don’t vote anyway.
    scenario fits trump mindset

  3. I wish it was solely based on donnie. Unfortunately, it won’t fully end until we have a vaccine.

    The part that donnie is totally screwing is backing the repub move to NOT continue govt support for those who are out of work.

  4. It may be another weekly decline, but initial claims a year ago were around 225,000.

  5. This would be concerning if we weren’t already past the worst of the pandemic. :crazy_face:

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