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*Title:* More than a quarter of the workforce has filed for unemployment in six states
*Authors: * Jori Kandra
*Source:* Economic Policy Institute (EPI)
*Date:* April 30, 2020
*Summary: *Another 3.5 million U.S. workers filed for unemployment insurance (UI) benefits last week, according to the Department of Labor’s most recent data released this morning (not seasonally adjusted). In the past six weeks, nearly 28 million https://www.epi.org/blog/nearly-28-million-workers-applied-for-unemployment-insurance-benefits-in-the-last-six-weeks-congress-must-act-to-mitigate-harm-from-unprecedented-joblessness/, or one in six, workers applied for UI benefits across the country.
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