Nearly 17 million Americans filed for unemployment over the last three weeks.
Over the last three weeks, more than 16.7 million people have filed for temporary unemployment benefits, according to the Labor Department. That number is, since certain states like Florida and Texas have only recently closed nonessential businesses and many workers are still struggling to file claims to state unemployment offices that are overwhelmed by demand. In the last week alone, a revised 6.9 million people filed claims.
In March 2009, during the height of the financial crisis, claims reached 665,000. Between 2007 and 2009, over a period of 18 months, the Great Recession wiped outworkers from their payrolls , but that data doesn’t yet reflect the full magnitude of the millions of job losses the United States has seen over the last three weeks. Since the survey for the March report was conducted in the middle of the month, April’s numbers will be more indicative of the true scope of job losses.
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