More than 22 million have filed for unemployment in four weeks

April 16, 2020

More than 5.2 million workers filed for unemployment insurance last week, according to the Labor Department, bringing the four-week total to over 22 million. “There’s nowhere to hide,” said Diane Swonk, chief economist at Grant Thornton in Chicago. “This is the deepest, fastest, most broad-based recession we’ve ever seen.”

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