translated from Spanish: 17 million Americans asked for unemployment aid in three weeks

The U.S. health crisis through the coronavirus, where President Donald Trump took time to take steps to stem the outbreak, also hit the economy and caused 16.8 million citizens to seek unemployment aid. The report that the U.S. Department of Labor indicated that for the second week in a row orders exceeded 6 million. 

We are starting to see evidence of the beginning of a stabilization which is a great credit to the American people who are practicing President @realDonaldTrump’s guidelines and following the advice of their state and local leaders. pic.twitter.com/XFzUoke6iD—Mike Pence (@Mike_Pence)
April 9, 2020

IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said thursday that the economy would fall would be even worse than the Great Depression of 1929. In the US, specialists predicted the loss of 20 million jobs from coronavirus. To alleviate these effects, the Trump administration pushed a $2.3 trillion program for local and municipal governments and small and medium-sized businesses. 

Added to that are the dramatic figures of 432,554 infected and more than 15,000 killed by the virus, with the focus on New York, where 799 people died in a single day. Vice President Mike Pence said in the last few hours that they began to see “evidence of the beginning of a stabilization” of the contagate curve, although the previous week Trump predicted “very difficult days” for the American people.

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