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Another 6.6 Million US Workers Claim Jobless Benefits

Ken Bredemeier

   WASHINGTON - Another 6.6 million U.S. workers filed for unemployment
   compensation last week as the coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak
   havoc on the American economy, the [1]U.S. Labor Department reported
   Thursday.

   The new figure pushed the three-week total to more than 16 million
   workers looking for financial assistance, with millions more laid-off
   employees expected to file claims in the coming weeks as businesses
   large and small shut their operations or severely limit them.

   The total of 6.6 million new claims was only slightly less than the
   revised 6.8 million figures from two weeks ago and the back-to-back
   figures were among the highest since the Department of Labor started
   tracking the data in 1967

References

   1. https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/OPA/newsreleases/ui-claims/20200592.pdf

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