More than 6.6 million people in America filed new claims for unemployment last week, according to jobs numbers released by the U.S. Department of Labor today. That means that over the past three weeks, more than 15 million people have lost their jobs, although the true number is almost assuredly higher than that.
This week’s numbers are down slightly from last week, when more than 6.8 million new people who filed for unemployment. (The DOL released revised numbers on last week today, adding more than 200,000 job losses that weren’t reported last Thursday.) That doubled the total of more than 3.3 million who filed in the previous week. Until last month, the record for new unemployment claims in just one week was 695,000, set in October 1982.
The hardest hit states in the past week include California, which reported 871,992 new claims, and New York, which reported over 286,000.
The economic catastrophe has been felt most viscerally in industries affected by stay at home orders, such as food service. But Department of Labor press releases from the past several weeks have also described hits to industries like manufacturing, healthcare and social assistance, retail and wholesale, and construction.
It’s also disproportionately hit those with less wealth and assets overall. The share of people who were able to pay even a portion of their April rent dropped a precipitous 13 points from April 2019 to April 2020, according to new data from a landlord trade organization, the National Multifamily Housing Council.
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