881K Americans filed for unemployment last week
NPR
The good news, if you want to look at it that way, is that the number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits last week was under one million for the first time in a month. That’s it. More than 29 million workers were collecting unemployment benefits as of Aug. 15, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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