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A year of pandemic unemployment, by the numbers
Your browser does not support the audio format.0% playedShare Now on:HTML EMBED:Share Now on:HTML EMBED:— that’s how many Americans filed first-time claims for unemployment last week. That’s about 6% fewer than the week before, and a big improvement over the worst weeks of the early pandemic, just about a year ago, when the number went into the millions for a couple of months. But it’s still way worse than the number 52 Thursdays ago: just 211,000. We took a dive into a year’s worth of unemployment numbers.To try to get a sense of the scale and severity of unemployment over the past year,...…Your browser does not support the audio format.0% playedShare Now on:HTML EMBED:Share Now on:HTML EMBED:— that’s how many Americans filed first-time claims for unemployment last week. That’s about 6% fewer than the week before, and a big improvement over the worst weeks of the early pandemic, just about a year ago, when the number went into the millions for a couple of months. But it’s still way worse than the number 52 Thursdays ago: just 211,000. We took a dive into a year’s worth of unemployment numbers.To try to get a sense of the scale and severity of unemployment over the past year,...WW…
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