US jobless claims hit 6.6 million as coronavirus layoffs continue
(New York Post Business)

More than 6.6 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as the coronavirus continued to gut the US labor market, the feds said Thursday. The seasonally adjusted number of initial jobless claims reported by the US Labor Department surpassed the prior week’s record-shattering revised total of 3.3 million - another signal that the pandemic...