In the past five weeks, 26.7 million people have been asking for state aid for unemployment in the United States. It is that the isolation measures to slow the advance of the coronavirus culminated in massive closures of businesses and businesses.
The Department of Labor today published its data on the week ended April 18, where 4,427 million orders for state aid for unemployment were recorded. However, this is a slight decrease from the previous week, where applications reached 5,237 million. At the time, the impact of the Covid-19 resulted in the death of 46,771 people in the north, the infection of 830,000 and the loss in just one month of all jobs created in the longest labor boom in U.S. history.
President Donald Trump tweeted that he signed an order to suspend for 60 days the delivery of new green cards, which is tantamount to curbing the hiring of immigrants, with the aim of targeting U.S. citizens for upcoming jobs.
In this way, he ratified an announcement made last Tuesday, noting that “in light of the Attack of the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the workers of our GREAT American Citizens, I will sign an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration to the United States!”
According to Department of Labor data, all U.S. states reported an increase in unemployment bisidio orders in the past week, with California leading with its 533,568 applications. In this note:
