More than 16 million Americans have lost their jobs in the past three weeks.
Of those, four never reached our current level, over 16 million unemployment claims. For the others, it took a tremendous amount of time to reach that level: between 33 weeks and 51 .
Even in the Great Recession a decade ago, it took 42 weeks to get 16 million total initial claims. This time around, it has takenFor U.S. recessions since 1967, number of weeks before reaching each benchmark for total initial unemployment insurance claims
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