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The labor market detonated again, with another record week of unemployment claims confirming that the coronavirus shutdown was turning into a mass layoff event. The scale was so large that even the headline number barely captured how many Americans were probably still stuck outside the system.
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The labor market detonated again, with another record week of unemployment claims confirming that the coronavirus shutdown was turning into a mass layoff event. The scale was so large that even the headline number barely captured how many Americans were probably still stuck outside the system.
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The labor market detonated again, with another record week of unemployment claims confirming that the coronavirus shutdown was turning into a mass layoff event. The scale was so large that even the headline number barely captured how many Americans were probably still stuck outside the system.
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