3.3 million Americans file for unemployment last week

3.3 million Americans file for unemployment last week
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In just 7 days, 3.3 million Americans filed claims for unemployment – more than 1% of the entire population. That’s a new record, capping the previous record of 695,000 claims in the last week of September 1987.

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