30m Americans Now Out Of Work As Covid-19 Crisis Sidelines Another 3.8m People
LAGOS APRIL 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 3.8 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, meaning the coronavirus crisis has sidelined more than 30 million workers, new federal data show. That means 18.6 percent of the nation’s workforce — more people than the entire state of Texas — tried to collect unemployment checks in the…