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Last week, 2.4 million workers applied for unemployment benefits. This is the 17th week in a row that unemployment insurance (UI) claims have been more than twice the *worst* week
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Last week, 2.4 million workers applied for unemployment benefits. This is the 16th week in a row that unemployment claims have been more than twice the *worst* week of the
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Last week, 2.2 million workers applied for unemployment benefits. This is the thirteenth week in a row that unemployment claims have been more than twice the *worst* week of the
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Last week, 3.1 million workers applied for unemployment benefits. This is the tenth week in a row that unemployment claims are more than 3 times the *worst* week of the
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BRACE YOURSELF for the most cataclysmic #JobsDay of all of our lives. This chart has monthly job changes over the past 80 years. We lost more than 20 million jobs
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Deep breath. In the last five weeks, more than 24 million workers applied for unemployment insurance. That is more than one in seven workers. 1/ All else equal, job losses
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LOOK AT THIS. Between March 15th and April 4th, 16.8 million workers applied for unemployment insurance. That is more than one in ten workers. In three weeks. And we are
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According to today’s #jobsday data, we lost 701,000 jobs in March. BUT it’s important to note that because of the timing of data collection for the survey, that number is
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This chart is a portrait of disaster. I have spent the last twenty years studying the labor market and have never seen anything like it. Unemployment insurance claims for the
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