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More than
22 million American have lost their jobs in the last four weeks as the
coronavirus pandemic has swept across the US, according to government figures.
The US
labor department announced on Thursday that another 5.24 million people filed
for unemployment benefits last week, making a total of 22.2 million since 14
March when nationwide stay at home orders led to an unprecedented wave of
layoffs across the country.
The largest
number of people to ask for unemployment benefits in a four week period before
the Covid-19 crisis came in 1992 when 2.7 million sought support.
The torrent
of layoffs has swept across the country, and every sector of the economy,
leading to backlogs and anger at state unemployment offices as people have
struggled to make claims. The delays are likely to trigger further spikes in
the figures in coming weeks.
“It’s akin
to the entire country being hit by a hurricane,” said Jason Reed, assistant
chair of finance at the University of Notre Dame. “And we don’t know
when the hurricane is leaving.”
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