Another 4.4 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits

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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[threeeyedmonster]

These numbers will get worse, it will take years to get the unemployment rate back down to where it was. Damage is done already.

[sonofgodzirra]

More relief? I have not gotten the first one yet!

[spzaruba]

After Congress incentivized unemployment and put $600 on top of each weekly payout, everybody is trying to cash in. Business owners are getting threatened for taking PPP.

[gastarbeiter]

trump will find a way to blame hillarys emails for this^^"

[cameleyez]

Trump: Our economy will be better than ever!

Covid 19: You forgot I was still here?

[shahramsareminouri]

Never got my $1200 yet
Can not apply for unemploment cuz I own my small business.
I could not qualify for the first round of the PPP loans.
Still greatfull I am alive.f...this goverment

[normakay]

What's happening with the senseless wars, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and all the stupid wars huh let this be a lesson to the world that all these wars were stupid and unnecessary

[mohamadaminlaidin]

Even if the shop start to open tomorrow, I will not buy any new clothes, new shoes, new car, new phone. I only spent my money on groceries in this critical condition.

[shauncampbell]

Remember Obama was president during H1N1, Ebola and Zika and I don’t think the unemployment numbers were this bad? I was living in the uk back then so maybe someone will correct me?

[ThanhMaiOFFICIAL]

Hard times ahead. Clearly the $1, 200 stimulus cheque isn’t enough. Hopefully much more support is coming 💵💸💰

[tree]

It will take years for the U.S to recover from this I just hope most of the jobs come back so people wont lose their homes.

[pauloliver]

I wouldn't loan money to America because the government doesn't pay it's bills. Although, America will auction off government agencies as payment, I'm not into that type of repayment but Russia is into that.

[spiceyhotpot]

Looks like he's running the country like his casino's

[kevinarzola]

The unemployment is around 50%. The reason it isn’t is because states are refusing to process unemployment claims and are instead stalling progression to keep the numbers as low as possible for daddy Trump

[arthurmorgan]

Trump: People tell me we have the greatest unemployment numbers ever, tremendously bigly, we are winning like never before. #MAGA #KAG #PREZ4LIFE

[perfectstudents]

26+ million Americans have filed for unemployment in the past one month.
Yet, the unemployment phone lines are still impossible to get through and the unemployment websites still keep crashing.

[khushhalpakistanzindabad]

Is anybody assessing the crimes rate which is going to spike?

[FabricatorFactory]

This plan should have rolled out 2 months ago when Canada did. Canada is paying for us to stay home.

[chroniccrypto]

Good luck getting unemployment. We've been waiting since March 14th. Been 6 weeks and counting and we haven't received a stimulus check yet either and they're now saying by September you'll get your 1200

[Gymrat]

Still waiting on unemployment...that stimulus was 100 dollars shy of my rent payment smh