The ranks of workers filing for unemployment claims was 6.6 million last week, as the number of U.S. coronavirus cases outpaced the world
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Applications for unemployment benefits logged in at 6.6 million in the week ended April 4 after reaching a record 6.9 million revised figure from a week earlier. Claims were hovering at just over 200,000 per week before the coronavirus-related shutdowns put millions of people out of work in mid-March.
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