Another 5.2 million Americans have filed for new unemployment benefits, the Labor Department said in its weekly report Thursday.
The new claims were filed for the week ending April 11, and add to the 16 million other Americans who’d filed the three weeks prior.
Last week’s filing total was a decrease from the previous week, when 6.6 million applied for benefits. The same number of Americans had filed new claims the previous week, bringing the total to more than 18 million new claims in the last three weeks.
Millions of workers have been laid off since the beginning of March due to restrictions brought on by the coronavirus crisis. The department said last week the unemployment rate had risen to 8.2 percent.
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I’m not gloomy-doomy like Zero in thinking ‘those jobs aren’t coming back.’ I’m an optimist & believe when things do start back up, America will be greater than ever. Although it seems to me gov’t officials have overstepped their authority in ordering businesses closed, partially closed, imposing severe restrictions thereon and more, I do think people will rebound greatly & find a new appreciation for America’s freedom, and thus begin anew (if they haven’t already) enjoying the fruits thereof . . . start traveling again, enjoy restaurants again, returning to work, socializing (with reasonable precautions) and participating in the greatest government experiment ever devised by mankind.
The old saying ‘it’s always darkest just before dawn’ seems apros pro.
SOME of them may come back. BUT the longer this goes on, the MORE i can see some of those jobs disappearing forever.