April 23, 2020 10:48 pm | Updated 10:48 pm IST - Washington
More than 4.4 million laid-off workers applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week as job cuts escalated across an economy that remains all but shut down, the government has said. Roughly 26 million people have now filed for jobless since the pandemic began forcing employers to shut their doors. About one in six American workers have lost their jobs in the past five weeks.
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