Nearly 1.9M US workers file jobless claims

courtneyk/iStockBy CATHERINE THORBECKE, ABC News

(NEW YORK) — Another 1.9 million Americans filed for unemployment insurance last week, the Department of Labor said Thursday.

The coronavirus pandemic has pushed unemployment in the U.S. to its highest rate since the Great Depression. Nearly 42 million U.S. workers have filed jobless claims since mid-March.

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