Jobless claims surge for third week as 6.6 million Americans file for unemployment

Another 6.6 million people filed for unemployment benefits in the week ending April 4. Altogether, more than 16 million Americans have sought aid in the form of jobless benefits in just the prior three weeks alone.

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  1. That number is inaccurate it’s so many people still trying to file that’s unable to… this has been a complete failure!!!!

    1. @InfamousMacias So you are glad that private insurance is ripping you.
      But obviously your so blind.

    1. @Peoples Republic of Ninj thanks for that comment calling him out. “Diced d” might think we’re bullshitting, but we’re not, this is a real shitty situation for those of us unable to file claims. I’ve been living off of my savings for just shy of a month and can easily stretch my savings out a few more.

      If anything, his whole story doesn’t add up. $70K per year as a bartender working 4 days a week & under 25yrs old, but yet has been on unemployment since before the forced business closures started? Not only that, but claims to have received a stimulus check before the IRS has even begun direct deposit (reported to begin next Mon/Tues).

    2. Soon, won’t over a hundred million Americans be unemployed, in this condition of the new normal (what once was, will no longer be)?

    1. @Hydra
      Keep your comments to yourself and don’t even try to bash! You don’t like it?! Then go somewhere else! Don’t bother!

    1. @soldier2009 You sleep I see. Alot of us don’t have 2020 vision to see what’s REALLY going on in 2020! Watch and see what happens. *Remember* I told you ahead of time. I don’t smoke weed or cigarettes. Alcohol free.Drug free. Thanks!

  2. I love how in the background they have giant germs floating around their heads on the monitors . As if you didn’t get the point yet LOL!

    1. If it was a fake virus then tell me the diabolical plan they have for this virus, 😑 I just want this to be done with and start working again so I can continue paying bills while trying to accomplish my goals.

    2. @Paul Rossi Mr.Trump already said he had no responsibility for anything. What more do the MNM want?

  3. Shout out to all the workers keeping America running even for a little bit and not just the healthcare workers

    1. @grow forit Lol ok the only thing that orange orangutan had going for him was his economy & now we will be in a recession so keep thinking that moron

    2. How can the shutdown of the American economy be justified, as the COVID-19 virus is just a cold virus?

    3. The workers that are working are deemed essential workers, and the workers who have been fired have been deemed non-essential workers!

  4. Hyperinflation, political extremism, clueless government, mass unemployment, strikes, riots, etc…sounds like a 1920’s country I read about as a teenager…

    1. @C Hoc I just showed her everything you said again. Her exact words just now: “He’s wrong, I’m not laughing at you, I’m laughing at him.” (You must be single or get laughed at by your mate a lot). We both “wrote in” Bernie on our ballots in 2016. You’re making us laugh at you. Thanks for that!

    2. @C Hoc what kind of world does your heart live in where you would think that one spouse would laugh at or mock their mate over a disagreement? Man, you are a sad person.

    3. VirtualizingReality who cares about the national debt that was skyrocketing when my dad was born lol when we see a good number will just file bankruptcy the American way

    4. Doesn’t the Federal Reserve Bank have a trading desk at the New York Stock Exchange, and they infuse electronically printed, billions of dollars into the market as fast as they can type (when they want to)?

  5. 6.6 million and I can’t even get through on the phone line.
    last week I finally made it through to the call back option and when they called me back they hung up on me after being on hold. *CLICK

    1. Gser34 it’s called using a computer to do it yah dummy. There not even taking calls anymore

    2. @Christian Cliffton That is what I did at the first place, I would not call if i didn’t have to. When filing at completion online i get a message saying “Your claim must be reviewed by DETR, please contact the Telephone Claims Center to submit your claim.”

  6. Only 16+ million unemployment in the past 3 weeks? There are still many people who can’t get through the unemployment websites and phone lines.

    1. Perfect Students As COVID-19 is just a cold virus, then how can tens of millions of Americans being thrown out of work be justified?

  7. My company is a fabric distributor,, I was furloughed but we were reactivated yesterday because people are manufacturing facemasks. So I’m back to work for the second day.

    1. After this virus dissipates like the h1n1 everybody will be back to work. All this stock up on toilet paper until after the election is bs. Remember Hussein lost that’s lost 12 million full time jobs Trump’s job growth will continue. Anything medical, vitamins, peroxide ect will made here. That’s means new company’s and the ones over seas will be brought back. Vote for stats not feelings. And when someone says everything that is good under Pres Trump is because of Obama. Just remember he’s shovel ready jobs and him saying Trump will never bring back manufacturing jobs. This growth has absolutely nothing to do with Obama or Clinton.

    1. @Sean Bailey and your point is??? You act as if the man is all evil or all perfect. What a low brow mouth breather

    2. @Joe Maleski My comment was an exact copy of yours, with one word changed. So everything in your second comment also applies to you.

    3. @Sean Bailey no moron. I made of people blaming trump for everything. You then accused me of not finding fault in the man which is a forceful view from YOU moron

    4. Doesn’t throwing millions of Americans out of work help to cure the pandemic, because the virus does not like our way of life?

  8. WAYYYY under the real number. I believe it is far over 25 million. There will be a MASSIVE economic collapse. Many of these jobs and businesses will not recover.

    1. @Earth Florida Pay your bills with the stock market and gas prices….. How do you put food on the table for your family?! Stupid comment!

    2. **Spiritual Journey** you could pay your rent with profits from the stock market but you’re a dummy so you don’t understand how that works.

    3. @Earth Florida I can tell you’ll be the first in line for the mandatory vaccines!! Idiot!

  9. Welcome to Tajikistan my American friends🇹🇯 We have 0 cases of corona virus 🦠. But we don’t have jobs , money 🤣We have nothing here 😀 Only mountains 🏔.
    We closed our border with China in January

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  10. I’m a small employer of 5 people and if I added health insurance for my employees it would double my payroll cost. I can’t double my business’s gross income.

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