The number of workers claiming new unemployment benefits jumped to 6.6 million last week, the Labor Department reported Thursday, as the economic shutdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus spurred layoffs on an unprecedented scale.
Economists projected that between 2.5 million to 7.5 million jobs would be lost last week.
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