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3 million Americans filed jobless claims last week, pushing 8-week total to 36.5 million

Roughly 3 million people filed for unemployment benefits last week, the Labor Department reported Thursday, as the coronavirus pandemic continued to unleash widespread economic havoc on an already depleted U.S. workforce.

A woman looks at signs at a store in Niles, Ill.
A woman looks at signs at a store in Niles, Ill.Read moreNam Y. Huh / AP
    by Tony Romm, Washington Post
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