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US jobless claims spike to a record 3.3 million as coronavirus triggers widespread unemployment

Editor Business Insider March 26, 2020

  • A record number of people in the US filed claims for unemployment insurance last week amid the coronavirus pandemic.
  • US weekly jobless claims for the week ending March 21 were 3,283,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday.
  • Economists will be watching future reports to see how bad the situation in the US really is as coronavirus triggers a widespread economic shutdown.
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The number of people who filed claims for unemployment insurance in the US last week surged to an all-time high as the coronavirus pandemic spurred layoffs across the country.

US weekly jobless claims for the week ending March 21 totaled 3,283,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday, exceeding the consensus analyst forecast of 1.5 million. That’s up from 281,000 in the previous week, which already marked a two-year high.

The number is by far the largest on record for a single week, exceeding the previous record of nearly 700,000 newly filed jobless claims in 1982.

“Record is not even the right word here,” Martha Gimbel, an economist at Schmidt Futures, told Business Insider in an interview. “These numbers are literally incredible.”

For context, Gimbel pointed out that for the week ending March 7, the total number of …continued .
[Source: Business Insider]

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