New unemployment numbers

Update: March 26, 2020 (9:33 a.m.)

New unemployment numbers were released this morning by the U.S. Labor Department, and they are - as expected - not good. A record 3.28 million Americans filed claims in the past week alone as the coronavirus crisis plunged the nation into a certain deep recession. Those numbers are 400 percent higher than the all-time record of 695,000 in 1982. Read more.