The coronavirus has cost Americans 34 million jobs since mid-March - Business Insider

States keep undercounting unemployment due to bad tech — the real numbers are even more shocking

People who lost their jobs wait in line to file for unemployment following an outbreak of the coronavirus disease , at an Arkansas Workforce Center in Fort Smith, Arkansas, U.S. April 6, 2020.

Economists at Virginia Commonwealth University and Arizona State University believe 34 million American jobs have been lost since mid-March, millions more than official unemployment claims numbers report.have been lost during the pandemic, possibly because long waits have kept hundreds of thousands of people from applying for unemployment benefits.

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