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Covid-19 pushes US jobless claims last week to record 3.3 million
Published Thu, Mar 26, 2020 · 09:50 PM
Washington
THE economic shutdown caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic sparked an explosion of Americans filing for unemployment benefits, surging to 3.3 million last week - the highest number ever recorded, the Labor Department reported on Thursday.
This comes even as real GDP in the US increased at an annual rat…
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