America is Fucked

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    Initial claims for unemployment insurance reach 3.28 million–the highest on record.

    Layoffs are skyrocketing to unprecedented levels as the coronavirus upends the U.S. economy.

    The number of Americans filing initial applications for unemployment benefits jumped nearly twelvefold to a record 3.28 million last week, the Labor Department said Thursday, offering the most vivid evidence yet of the pandemic's widespread damage to the economy.

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/m…
    https://www.usatoday.com/story/m…

    • don't worry, as soon as the big companies receive their bailouts and are able to buy back their stocks to pay their CEOs all will be back to normal!_niko
    • yes. pay those who doesn't lack money to survive first.pango
    • More than likely it will hit 30%. 5% more than great depression. 5% is difference between acceptable employment and great recessiondeathboy

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