More than 328,000 Californians filed for unemployment benefits last week, according to todayâs U.S. Department of Labor report. That brings the total number of statewide unemployment claims since the shelter-in-place orders began in mid-March to nearly 3.7 million.
Nationally, jobless claims filed over the past six weeks now total over 30 million. That’s roughly one out of every five people who had a job in February, NPR reported.
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