• Nearly 1.2 million laid-off Americans applied for state unemployment benefits last week, evidence that the coronavirus keeps forcing companies to slash jobs just as a critical $600 weekly federal jobless payment has expired. The government’s report this morning offered some hopeful news: The number of jobless claims declined by 249,000 from the previous week,
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