President Trump and Coronavirus Task Force provide update, Friday, April 17 | USA TODAY

America has been battered by job losses during the coronavirus pandemic, with some of the worst occurring in key swing states ahead of the U.S. presidential election in November.

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Roughly 21% of workers in Michigan have applied for unemployment benefits over the past four weeks, while 19.8% filed jobless claims in Pennsylvania, according to data compiled by USA TODAY.

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33 comments

  1. Amazing job , great people,, fantastic man, absolutely incredible, spectacular job,
    Oh, wait, don’t be scared. I love superlatives!

    1. don’t forget….POWERFUL AND BIGGEST AND BEST! You know, the ‘oranges’ of words…the beginnings LMFO.

    1. Who WILL Win? Already Virus won as it has already killed over 40,000 people. Even if not a single people die anymore, we have ALREADY lost against COVID19

  2. It’s tremendous incredible so amazing so incredible. Amazing incredible blah blah blah. He’s nothing more than a pep talk fluffer

  3. To paraphrase Sir Winston Churchill’ I will fight them on the golf courses, I will fight them on the fast food take away, I will not be defeated as my enemy is a single cell entity’ Sorry Winnie

  4. WHY don’t the cameramen, from ANY news outlet, back out to show ANY of the slides these PROFESSIONALS are showing?
    Not one? I don’t get it.

    1. I noticed it too hate it. Then I found it… Its the white house coverage that shows the graphics. Just YouTube” the white house” and it will come up. I don’t really prefer it but for the graphics I may watch it more. I like USA today because they live tweet and it keeps me occupied during the repetitive parts. Take care.

  5. The worst country to deal with crisis management both domestic and internationally . To think that the world look to US for leadership all the time since WW2. That is so ironic and ridiculous.

  6. We are great, we have this, we have that, it’s all so amazing!!!! Terrible… blablablabla. What a coverup for bad management!!

  7. … in our country we have psychiatric clinics, but it’s an interesting idea to use the government building for that !

  8. This is not a time for petty differences, to divide is to conquer. CCP is loving this…js👍🙈🙉🙊

  9. His vocabulary horrible tremendous. no one has seen anything like this blames everyone except him.

    1. @ Alter Lee – I would expect a so called president to be able to use a vocabulary of more the. 20 words 🤣

    1. Government- rest in peace- not citizens… more then half can’t do anything or it wasn’t their fault .

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