For the fifth week in a row, millions of American workers applied for unemployment benefits, seeking financial relief as businesses remained closed during the coronavirus pandemic.
First-time claims for unemployment benefits totaled 4.4 million in the week ending April 18, after factoring in seasonal adjustments, the US Department of Labor said.
CNN's Christine Romans, Julia Chatterley and John Harwood join Alisyn Camerota to discuss the toll of the pandemic on the US economy.
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Trump: Our economy will be better than ever!
Covid 19: You forgot I was still here?
@The Only Young Steak B*tch PROPERTY OF PITTSBURGH no. He stopped travel in JANUARY. You people called him racist and xenophobic. While the democrats where telling people ALL THE WAY until March 10th that he was crazy and to enjoy life, the virus isn’t bad like “Trump” says. Also since they’ve been wasting MIS trying to impeach him since BEFORE he was elected. With BOGUS documents Hillary paid RUSSIA for. Just stay in your little echo chamber so they can continue gaslighting you. I was an independent with left leaning beliefs until my brain turned on. Just like you.
@Wize Wolf promoting drugs that kill? You libs should go to the doctor for hydroxychloriquine. Not to the pet store for fish pond cleaner
@Wize Wolf so you are saying close the borders? Hasn’t Trump been saying that for years? So you agree Trump was right?
@Wize Wolf lol, experts like fauci. Lol. Libs should take all 185,588 vaccines. Good idea
@Arthur Kroulik Fauci not an expert now? Is that why Trump has him on his team? Only the best people right?
These numbers will get worse, it will take years to get the unemployment rate back down to where it was. Damage is done already.
Nope. It’s gonna rebound quick!
@Ryan thanks trump
Danny Watson – Our current situation has everything to do with Trump’s policies. Trump was the one who decided to pretend like this virus was a hoax, that it wasn’t going to affect the US, and who wasted a month that could have been used to take action to keep it off our shores. Trump’s failure to lead, plan and act is exactly why we have been on house arrest for the last 7 weeks and our economy has nosedived. Trump owns this crisis. There is ample video footage of him repeatedly dismissing the virus as no big deal early on. It’s a well documented screw up of massive proportions. No way to gaslight out of this. There’s no stupid nickname he can give it, nobody he can throw under the bus. This is his Katrina, his Bengahzi, his housing market crash.
@T0nya Hard0n it will kill less people than if we keep it closed. do you have any understanding of how the economy works?
The government should have done what Germany did. Pay a % of people’s wages until the isolation is over then these companies are ready to go.
More relief? I have not gotten the first one yet!
@Glock Coley did your house come with wheels ???
Global starvation is coming.
Don’t worry the chèque is in the post
Glock Coley I got my 1200 already. I was smart enough to pick up an essential job in the meantime.
THE TRUTH ABOUT HYDROXYCHLOROQUIEN
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6151529873001?playlist_id=5581981163001#sp=show-clips
Hard times ahead. Clearly the $1,200 stimulus cheque isn’t enough. Hopefully much more support is coming 💵💸💰
Thanh Mai: Even on unemployment, you wouldn’t receive your full paycheck ( that you had from a job)… only a percentage of it.
This virus is suppose to be around in waves until a vaccine is found.
The world cannot be shut down for that long.
Australia is looking to open up , with changes such as social distancing etc, next month.
I want China and WHO to be held accountable.
Why did China stop Wuhan residents travelling to other parts of China but fought travel restrictions that other countries were putting in?
Why did they revise numbers, now saying that their virus casualties are up to 50% more?
Why did China send faulty tests and equipment to the world?
Why did China use Chinese owned businesses in the west to buy huge amounts of medical supplies and ship it back to China via private planes BEFORE the world knew the truth?
Why did WHO say no human transmission in Jan 2020 and no need for travel restrictions banning people from China in February 2020?
This has crippled the world thanks to China and WHO.
@Buford interesting that you find this funny
@citizenxgen no, its you I find funny. Your assumption that we just flip a switch and we all go back to work. Not going to happen, recession coming.
https://youtu.be/yN4CIxf65Fk
MAGA MANIACS voted for chaos, they got it.
STOP BLAMING ALL ON TRUMP. THE DEMS SOLD US OUT TOO. LET THEM EAT ICE CREAM
@Michelle Burkholder The Dems haven’t been in POWER for the last 3 1/2 years. This baby belongs to TRUMP, his MAGA MANIACS and the Republican party. You voted for CHAOS, You got it. Now eat it or beat it.
@Michelle Burkholder So Ironic that when it’s the republicans pointing fingers its ALL the democrats fault and they will slit their wrists before taking any blame. Both parties are F$^$_d up but by far the republicans are spineless when it’s their party Starting most of the chaos (then they loose their voice).
What preytell do you think little miss kill em all would do? Please I’ll wait…….
It’s a pandemic, what are you talking about?? Did you drop out because you failed Health and Biology?
This party is just getting started.
You know it! If there’s a spike in the virus, its time to Impeach this genocidal fool, again!
Why isnt there a crisis in China?🇨🇳.. Trump, dropped the ball.. the greed is off the charts. We’re 25% of deaths in the world🇺🇸😷🇺🇸. Definitely, very discriminatory actions by our GOV’T the last 60 days, its cost us! Wait until 10M are infected, its gonna be a 💩show
Prepare for global famine.
The Democrats Are Going To Go Down Hard.
@Ron Wuerch without Dems, ya Mother, and ya Boyfriend would be sick🦄👽🦄
@RFI-Crypto Lab ive got 1 video posted! Us carving up some fish fillet, from water to plate🐟…
People better get inclined🤓! Indoor & porch gardens 🍓🥗🍇are a good move too, produce what you can
and when your leader was supposed to be guarding against this in jan-feb,he was golfing.
and he had been told this was coming.
MAGA sick of winning yet ?
And Nancy Antionette was having a block party in China Town!
@pissed off You didn’t bring any solid facts or evidence. You wrote a long post full of nonsense that neither moves the conversation forward nor backwards. I asked simple questions and you can’t even answer them. See how pathetic the argument you stand on is? You can’t even back it up with any logic or facts. Ok you don’t like Trump, but what would your favorite candidate do instead? Worse.
@KCohere33 He didn’t disband anything. His administration merged that office with the Counterproliferation and Biodefense Directorate. The teams had overlapping jobs so some people from the Pandemic Response team weren’t needed. That is all. The combined team had more ressources and access to expertise from different defense teams. That’s a fact. https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN21C32M
Trump also didnt call the virus itself a hoax. He called the Democrats politicising his administration’s response to the Corona outbreak a political hoax just like the Russia investigation. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-coronavirus-rally-remark/
Nice try, but try again. Either way, what was your alternative? Your top 3 Democrat champions Pelosi, Biden, and Bernie wouldn’t even have closed down travel from China, and Pelosi was out telling people to go to Chinatown in mid February. Chinatown, a place notorious for the congregation of Chinese immigrants and Chinese nationals. A week later the Federal government declares the virus a pandemic. https://grabien.com/story.php?id=278449
https://thepostmillennial.com/watch-nancy-pelosi-urged-people-to-congregate-in-chinatown-in-late-february
Go have a seat somewhere
@PermanentHigh who after 4 years would try and convince a trumper about thier insanity ?
as i said,if you were trying to make sense of it,you would already know the answers to your own questions.
you can educate the uneducated,but stupid is for life.
PermanentHigh Why don’t you go “have a seat somewhere?” You’re the one who responded to me, I didn’t speak to you. And go ahead and spin it however you want, but the proof is in the pudding. All you have to do is watch and listen to Trump try to minimize the pandemic, so much so that his cult members believe it’s no worse than the flu and are having rolling Trump rallies they call protests, where they are gathering in huge groups spreading the virus. If he had been acting like a president instead of a self-serving clown, there would be less people in their graves right now.
Meanwhile, the stock market (DOW) has a 1.5% rally. Go figure. “Fake News”??? — No, Fake Market.
@PermanentHigh The reason we do not have more small businesses is they have trouble competing with the large corporate business..
That is why I suggest we get them back up running first-
Life is not all about money…Lives come in mind as an example…Think
@Elmosweed so what about the ceo’s of Amazon, Google, Starbucks,Apple? Plenty more just off the top of my head.
A bear trap .. will go down for certain .. artificially protected atm ..
@Danny Watson I am not actually aware if the CEO’s of those company’s are Republican or Democrat- Are you?
@Elmosweed democrat
filed like 4/05 and I still haven’t got anything from GA labor smh…Im about to join the army only for my own survival because this killing me in debt
No don’t. You need to sit in your home and let your bills pile up and eventually get evicted. That’s the right thing to do. I know so Because the news and quarantine Karen and the rest of the social distance warriors said so!
Is anybody assessing the crimes rate which is going to spike?
The dems letting prisoners out isnt gonna help either
So will prostitution, drug use, suicides, domestic violence, disease transmission etc
@Snake Plissken so it wasn’t that Conservatives 3 strikes rules put non violent offenders away for life? Cause and effect kiddo…😘
@Snake Plissken the Republicans trying to kill anyone who isn’t the 1% is going to piss off the other 99%. read up on the French Revolution.
That would be any other day in Pakistan though.
not over yet, I know many who still have not gotten thru to make claims
Its so cluttered, thats how you know, its all bull💩..
1. Unemployment +$600..
2. People wont return to work
3. Will they cut you off benefits?
4. No American wants to return to minimum wage?
5. All this $$$, with a 5th bill coming, they’re fooling people. Why do all this, only to pack jobs, and get sick again?
* businesses get help b4 frontline medical staff… weird times👽
@A’Raina DOTK keep claiming😇 stay positive✌🏾.. my niece & a buddy both received theirs, and it was +$600.00..
Frontline health & medical workers should be making a minimum $1500.00.. REPUBLICANS havent done the right things, to support the people…
EliteGeeks
My job is still operating working from home and we were just informed there about to start laying people off, furloughing people and salary cuts next month. There coming after all of us. Not sure what’s gonna happen after that
@A Santi seeming like these companies are gonna pocket the $ and cut costs.. send some people home to collect that protected +$600..
Its not adding up.. bailout, unemployment, stimulus $$$… just cant trust THESE Republicans to do the American thing🇺🇸
@C. H. you realize every Democrat voted for the stimulus right?
For 8 years Obama fixed the economy, Trump breaks it in a matter of months!
@Hey Hayes in reality the pandemic team wasn’t fired the members were delegated to other teams. Read into things a bit more than repeating what you here on the news.
Exactly I mean we live in a Monarchy and the president is the absolute leader of the land! Lol I mean you guys forget democrats have majority in the House a government body equally as powerful as the executive branch. Not one person runs America.
Obama made the economy worse
@mike yeghiayan that’s the same thing. When you move the members to another team, your disbanding it and keeping it a shell of itself
@VJ S made it worse but Trump never added more jobs in a monthly jobs report than 2nd term Obama and only twice has he passed peak Obama’s GDP…Trump ran on erasing the debt and he’s on pace to spend more money than Obama did…tax cuts pay for themselves if we consistently run a 3-4% GDP but since the tax cuts we’ve yet to have consecutive quarters at that…wake up. Trump is a Democrat in Republican clothing
I alone can fix this. – The Danahld Jennifer Twump
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I’m selling my house and moving to Mexico.
I thought Canada was popular among you people?
Don’t go where the drug wars are! You would be much safer in Canada or try Chicago.
I don’t think you can run from the effects of a pandemic
Remember each day every racist would tell you how low the unemployment level was. How president Caligula lowered unemployment for People of color. And. Now THIS The highest ever
What exactly is your point here? You can’t be this fucking stupid.
You’re talking as if this job loss is the direct consequence of the President’s actions. A virus popped out of nowhere, completely outside of any man’s control, forcing the GLOBAL economy to slow down/shutdown. How exactly is that ONE man’s fault. That’s got NOTHING to do with Trump. He has PROVED that he can manage an economy, provided that NATURE doesn’t throw him a fucking curved ball.
Either way, what do you have to gain from increased unemployment? Sticking it to Trump? And then what? You woupd chop your nose to spite your face.
Pelosi just stalled the second relief bill. Ask a small business owner who is still waiting for their money. I’m pretty sure they’ll tell you they are voting for Trump in November
Darrell Brown: You have to leave your home to spend money and to work…. Very few jobs are from home. Democrats love to keep you locked up till the next election just for that purpose. You can’t spend your stimulus if you don’t leave.
Drumpf, his Reich-wing GOP enablers, and FOX have the blood on every American who has died fom Coronavirus on their hands, whether their supporters want to admit it or not!
You are dumb.
You are republicockholster.
Bless your heart! BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS! So much drama! It’s ok Forrest! You need to stick to cartoons. Fake news is apparently too upsetting for You! Lol
@Cool Hand Mark was closing the border racist you Dumb liberal?
Shut up, stupid.
It’s Obama’s fault for leaving such a wobbly economy for our ‘great leader’. (Sic)
Oh no you racist Trump supporter how darn you tell the truth. Biden is sharp as a tack and who we need to lead the country. Obama sucked then and still and now
“Look at the ratings. They’re through the roof.”
Where are they hiding Joe Biden?
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday wiped her dripping nose with her bare hand, then took that same hand and wiped it all over the House floor lectern used by other members of Congress.
The Demspeak for concern!
How many of them also lost their Healthcare “Insurance” because it was attached to their jobs during a PANDEMIC???