America's stunning unemployment surge during coronavirus, visualized.
have brought huge swaths of the economy to a halt. Not even during the peak of the Great Recession did the unemployment numbers come close to this latest spike, with 665,000 people applying for benefits the week of March 28, 2009.
The interactive chart below, dating back to 1967, shows the stunning surge in claims over the past couple weeks.
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