1.7 million people were on unemployment at this time a year ago in U.S. Now, it’s 12.6 million.
WASHINGTON — The amount of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fallen last week to 860,000, a historically high figure that reflects economic damage from that COVID-19 outburst. Before the epidemic hit the economy, the number signing up for jobless aid had never exceeded 700,000 in a week, even during this depths of the 2007-2009 Nice Recession. …