Nearly 1.5 million people in the United States filed for unemployment last week, according to the Labor Department, signaling a slow recovery as the country works its way out of a three-month economic shutdown.

Weekly unemployment totals have gradually eased since March, and a jobs report earlier this month showed that more than 2.5 million jobs had been added since May. But this week’s unemployment numbers haven’t changed much from weeks past, which means that even though jobs are being added to the market, they’re not being filled as quickly as economists had hoped. In other words, the V-shaped recovery for which many of us had hoped is looking more like a gradual incline.

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