The latest report from the US Labour Department pegs the unemployment rate at more than 20%. Although new unemployment claims have slowed down, the unemployment rate is still one of the highest since the Great Recession.
Timothy McBride
Timothy McBride, Bernard Becker Professor at Washington University, tweeted on the US Labour Department’s latest report on unemployment claims.
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The report notes that an additional 2.98 million claims were filed over the last two months bringing the total unemployment claims to 36.5 million.
McBride noted that the unemployment rate is expected to be more than 20% or even 25% by the time the next official report is released.
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Labor Department reports another 2.98 million initial unemployment claims, bringing coronavirus tally to 36.5 million over last 2 months.
This indicates that the next time the unemployment rate is officially reported that rate will likely be over 20% if not above 25%— Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd) May 14, 2020
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Edward Stringham, Professor at Trinity College, shared an article on the decline in the filing of new unemployment claims. The article notes that the total number of unemployment claims crossed 36 million but new claims continued to decline.
The number of unemployment claims peaked towards the end of March at 6.87 million but have since declined over the last few weeks. At the end of the first week of May, new claims totalled 2.98 million.
https://twitter.com/edstringham/status/1260937227217121281
