The weekly unemployment report came out Thursday, and as you’d expect, it’s terrible again. 2.4 million Americans filed new claims for unemployment benefits the week ending May 16, bringing the total of new unemployment claims over the last nine weeks to more than 38 million. That’s pretty bad, and continues the economy’s despondent march into Great Depression levels of unemployment, even if more of us are heading to the beach and insisting on the sacred American right to cradle an AR-15 while getting a haircut.
The jobless numbers continue to be astonishing, and House Democrats last week passed a new […]
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