Jobless claims: US workers file 963,000 claims last week

Some 963,000 Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as initial jobless claims dipped below 1 million for the first time since mid-March, the feds said Thursday.

But experts said the crisis was far from over as the number of applications filed during the coronavirus pandemic climbed to 56.2 million a staggering figure equivalent to 35 percent of the nation s workforce.

via nypost.com