As the COVID-19 outbreak engulfs the nation, unemployment claims in the U.S. reached 6.6. million last week ending on April 4, the Labor Department reported on Thursday morning.
The department reported 6,606,000 seasonally adjusted initial claims, a nominal decrease from the previous week’s revised claims of 6,867,000.
The latest figure indicates that a record 16.8 million jobs have been lost over the past three weeks as the number of coronavirus cases continue to skyrocket.
Another record set by the Pandemic P
aendejo. So much winning I can’t stand it.Edited as indicated by JacksonHts
Trump should now be called “The 6 Million Job Loss Man”…
Can we make it 6,600,001?
Total so far in the past 3 weeks is just shy of 10% of the total US workforce…
Luckily Ivanka created 15 million jobs so shoulhave these folks back to work asap. Hope they like making her dresses in a foreign country and making a dollar a dress!
In other republican spending news…