Biggest Increases in Unemployment Rates Due to COVID-19
“In April unemployment rates skyrocketed. The number of unemployed persons who reported is on temporary layoff increased about ten-fold to 18.1 million in April. The number of permanent job losers increased by 544,000 to 2.0 million. During the Great Recession, the one-week peak was 0.68 percent in January 2009″