BREAKING: Americans filed 4.4 million jobless claims last week, the Labor Department reported this morning, continuing a five-week wave of massive layoffs caused by the coronavirus pandemic
Americans filed 4.4 million jobless claims last week, the Labor Department reported Thursday, pushing the five-week total of coronavirus-driven job losses to more than 26 million.
Andrew Stettner, senior fellow at the progressive Century Foundation in reaction to the new claims number. "Today’s unemployment report shows continued, elevated unemployment claims caused by the coronavirus pandemic," Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia said in a statement. "The Department of Labor is continuing to provide guidance and support to the states as they implement the enhanced unemployment benefits under the CARES Act."
The greatest number of new unemployment claims was in California, which processed an estimated 533,568 claims last week. Florida followed with 505,137 new claims.
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