More than 790,000 Americans applied for unemployment for the first time last week, the Department of Labor said Thursday, as the economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic continue to intensifie.
In just over six months, more than 56 million employees implemented the benefits. The most recent weekly count fell particularly from the 6. 2 million other people who filed their first claims in March, when the economy practically stopped to stop the spread of coronavirus.
But the weekly volume of initial programs was still close to what had been the historical peak in the past, about 1 million, on a seasonally unsalmented basis, a recession in 1982.
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