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Thursday, March 26

Unemployment benefit applications surged to a record 3.3 million last week, vivid evidence of the coronavirus’s damage to the economy

The jobless claims total, a reliable gauge of layoffs across the country, was well above the 1.5 million economists had forecast, according to the median estimate of those surveyed by Bloomberg.

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