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[ad_1] Last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics officially validated what we already knew: just a few months after the Covid-19 crisis, the United States already has unemployment in the Great Depression. But that is not the same as saying that we are in a depression. We won’t know if …
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[ad_1] We are about to learn more about how devastating the pandemic has been to American workers. Even by the standards of the coronavirus pandemic, Friday’s report on employment in the United States will be staggering. It will also be much more illuminating than the data that has been released …
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