let's be clear - it's a 1.8% percentage point increase, relative to the entire US population. but data from the U.S. Dept of Labor (graphed in The Guardian [0])

let's be clear - it's a 1.8% percentage point increase, relative to the entire US population. but data from the U.S. Dept of Labor (graphed in The Guardian [0]) shows weekly unemployment claims just shot up from around 250k to around 3.25 million, which is a 1300% increase [0] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/mar/26/us-unemployment-rate-coronavirus-business https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/mar/26/us-unemploy...