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The peak unemployment level of the Great Depression was nearly 25% in 1933. Such a jobless rate may be closer than people think.
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U.S. companies announced more than 222,000 job cuts in March, a year-over-year increase of nearly 300%. The vast majority of the job losses were attributed to the outbreak of COVID-19.
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The unemployment situation has gone from the best jobs market ever to an atrocious job market faster than any time in history.
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Total nonfarm private sector payrolls were down only 27,000 in ADP's report for March, but that did not include all the data.
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Gap and Urban Outfitters are the newest retailers joining the list of companies that are furloughing employees in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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24/7 Wall St. has looked at the preliminary expectations for this week's unemployment and payrolls data. Some of the data seem drastic, but some of the absolute percentages and drops are likely to...
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A recent survey by Challenger, Gray & Christmas indicates that nearly all U.S. companies have either already instituted or are considering instituting work-from-home policies during the coronavirus...
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It was no secret that the number of jobless claims was going to be bad as the COVID-19 delivered an instant recession to the global economy.
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This dramatic impairment of economic activity in the United States and around the world will make for some very ugly economic numbers.
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While most businesses are laying off or furloughing employees, Dollar General is going in the opposite direction.
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Virtually every job in the U.S. leisure and hospitality industry is at risk of being lost at least temporarily as more states order people to stay home.
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Early indications are that the Bureau of Labor Statistics unemployment report could show 2 million jobs lost last month.
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One thing that most of America has not come to grasp fully is that the jobs market in America is crumbling, as waves of layoffs have started.
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U.S. consumer confidence continues tumbling as the coronavirus spreads across the country.
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A U.S. jobless rate of 20% would be the equivalent of 30 million Americans out of work. These five industries would be hit the hardest.
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