Unemployment in the US Spikes as the Coronavirus Crisis Unfolds

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In many cases, states that took longer to implement lockdown orders also took longer for their unemployment numbers to rise, hence the staggering increase in the past week (double the numbers from the week before that, from 3.3 to 6.6 million claims in total).

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Texas, for example, was one of the most recent states to introduce a shelter-in-place order, so its unemployment numbers began reflecting the situation just this week. Indeed, this week Texas saw a 77 percent jump in unemployment claims, after posting relatively mild numbers the previous week.

New York has logged over 366,000 unemployment claims to date, while California has over 878,000.