States with the highest jobless claims through April 10: 4. New York - 791,008 3. Michigan - 816,292 2. Pennsylvania - 1,065,841 Can you guess 1?
California and Pennsylvania have lodged the most applications for unemployment benefits since the coronavirus pandemic staggered the economy starting in March, but New York is likely to catch up once it fixes its overloaded system for processing jobless claims.
New York, the epicenter of the U.S. coronavirus crisis, has managed to process almost 800,000 new jobless claims in the past three weeks, but the true number is almost certainly much higher. New York had about 160,000 COVID-19 cases as of early Thursday — more than one-third of the entire U.S. total.
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