3.28M file for U.S. jobless benefits
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#2Wow
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#3That’s about 1% of the US population to put it in perspective
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#4Welcome to the Great Depression of the 21st century.
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#5For context, the previous record was ~680K in the early 1980s.
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#6Anecdotal but my company is hiring 2x support and 2x QA, yesterday alone we went from receiving 5-10 applicants a day to 53. I just got into work and there is already 21 from last night.
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#7Canada is at 1 million or about 5% of our population. And it's only going to go up from here.
I have no idea how they are doing to handle any of this, having that percentage of your population on EI is going to hurt.
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#8That’s about 1% of the US population to put it in perspective
And a far higher percentage of the workforce.
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#9And as an econ/business reporter points out, this should be seen as the lower bound on the true number of lost job, because there are a lot of reasons people didn't file, including confusion, overwhelmed systems, and many lost jobs not qualifying: https://twitter.com/bencasselman/status/1243147516784324608
Re: 3.28M file for U.S. jobless benefits
#10That’s about 1% of the US population to put it in perspective
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