Americans lost their jobs last week with 16 million jobs gone in the last three weeks as the coronavirus pandemic brought the US economy to a standstill, the US labor department confirmed on Thursday.
Monthly unemployment reached a 50-year low of 3.5% in 2019. See how the unemployment rate has fluctuated since 1980:
Looks like another New Deal is required. Trump is Herbert Hoover but who is Roosevelt?
It wouldn't take much to push a system as fragile as the American work force onto its side. This crisis is showing how brittle everything (on this side of the Atlantic) really is.
6.6 million Americans filing for unemployment. More than 16 million over 3 weeks. My opponent Jim Jordan voted *against* stronger unemployment benefits/food security during this pandemic. I want him to look every single one of these 16 million people in the eye and explain why.
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