Showing posts with label US unemployment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label US unemployment. Show all posts

May 26, 2020

Krystal and Saagar: Fed Bank President Reveals Real Unemployment Rate, 'Worst Is Yet to Come'


Krystal and Saagar discuss Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Neel Kashkari's remarks that Americans should brace for further unemployment amid the coronavirus pandemic, and said Congress should consider providing more financial help.

May 24, 2020

Middle-class Americans Queue at Food Banks as US Unemployment Hits 38 million – BBC News


In the United States another 2.4 million people have filed for unemployment benefits in the past week.

More than 38 million Americans have lost their jobs since the coronavirus pandemic struck in March.

Previously affluent middle-class Americans are now queuing for handouts at food banks, as America experiences the worst downturn since the 1930s and the Great Depression.

Huw Edwards presents BBC News at Ten reporting from North America Correspondent Nick Bryant in New York.


June 02, 2012

Barack Obama Blames Eurocrisis for Slowing Economy

The President says the latest US job figures reflect a still-struggling American economy also affected by Europe's financial crisis, adding that election-year government gridlock is not helping.


Read the article here | Friday, June 01, 2012