America hasn’t seen unemployment rise this sharply since 1948 — and experts say it’s not over yet… Worse than the Great Depression?
The nation’s unemployment rate jumped more than 10 points to 14.7% in April, as the coronavirus pandemic brought the U.S. economy to a standstill, the largest one-month plunge in employment levels since the federal government began measuring such data in 1948. Total nonfarm payroll employment fell by 20.5 million in April, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics … Read more