EPI: More than one in five workers are either receiving unemployment benefits or waiting for approval - Smlr_net

29 May 2020


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*Title:*  More than one in five workers are either receiving unemployment
benefits or waiting for approval
*Author: *  Heidi Schierholz
*Source:*    Economic Policy Institute (EPI)
*Date:*   May 28, 2020
*Summary:    *Las week, 3.1 million https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf workers
applied for unemployment benefits. This is the tenth week in a row that
initial unemployment claims are more than three times the *worst* week of
the Great Recession.
*Link: *   https://bit.ly/2X9HR7C
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