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The widely reported tick up in black unemployment was due to a rising number of African Americans returning to the workforce

Shock gains in employment!

Public officials should pivot from “flattening the curve” to “flattening the fear.” The data demonstrate that younger and otherwise healthy Americans face little risk of dying from this disease. Most people should immediately get back to living their daily lives without fear, boosting our beleaguered economy.

Jobless claims fell below 2 million for the first time since the pandemic and shutdowns hit the U.S. economy.

Friday on Fox News, White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow warned unemployment news was to get worse before it gets better due to the economic downturn resulting from the coronavirus pandemic.

Thirty-eight House Republicans have joined nine Republican Senators in lobbying the White House to continue importing foreign workers to the United States even as more than 36 million Americans are jobless. 

Roughly 40 million layoffs since the coronavirus shutdowns began.

Michigan’s Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s decision to ban most residential construction during the coronavirus shutdown led to a 44 percent decline in Michigan construction jobs and contributed to her state’s second highest in the nation unemployment rate.

Continuing claims hit a record high of just over 25 million.

The economic downturn from the novel coronavirus pandemic is “without modern precedent” and “significantly worse than any recession” the U.S. has experienced since World War II, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell told a Senate panel on Tuesday.

The economic fallout from the Chinese coronavirus was put in stark reality, as the British government revealed that the number of people claiming unemployment benefits in the United Kingdom rose by 856,500 during the first month of the national lockdown.

A Nigerian fraud ring has allegedly stolen millions of U.S. unemployment benefits meant to help jobless Americans.

The unemployment rate among legal immigrants and illegal aliens has spiked above the unemployment rate suffered by American citizens, undercutting claims that business needs migrant workers, says a report by the Center for Immigration Studies.

Jobless claims remain high as the economy continues to stumble from coronavirus hit and lockdowns.

Economists have downgraded their expectations for the current quarter but expect stronger growth in the third quarter

During an interview with Hill.TV’s “Rising,” on Tuesday, White House Coronavirus Task Force on the economy member Stephen Moore stated that the unemployment rate in the United States is “probably closer” to 20% and “could easily” hit 25%. Moore said,

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) latest Chinese coronavirus relief package shields illegal aliens from deportation so long as they take American jobs in “essential critical infrastructure work,” shielding their employers from prosecution.

Democrats have delayed legislation, made layoffs more attractive than hiring, and shamed public companies out of applying for PPP.

Despite more than 33 million Americans filing for unemployment in recent weeks due to the Chinese coronavirus crisis, business is continuing to demand more foreign workers to take jobs in the United States. 

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) urged Congress on Friday to pass a jobs bill to support businesses to rehire Americans that have been laid off and support payrolls to protect American jobs. 

President Donald Trump reacted Friday to the shocking unemployment numbers for the month of April, lamenting in an interview it was “fully expected” as the country shut down to prevent the spread of the Chinese coronavirus.

Nearly 80% of those who lost their job in April think they’ll get it back when the economy reopens.

Never before has the U.S. economy employed such a small share of our people.

While this job loss carnage is an American tragedy, it could have been twice as bad if it weren’t for the over 30 million jobs saved by the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), the $670 billion small business forgivable loan program.

The scale of the job loss has been breathtakingly sudden despite an unprecedented level of support for the economy .

Another bad week for American workers.

The GOP War Room distributed a video on Tuesday of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) promoting workers taking part in a nationwide strike.

United States Senate candidate Jeff Sessions says there is no shortage of American labor, calling out lawmakers and their “corporate friends” for supporting a continued flow of foreign workers to the U.S. to take jobs in the midst of mass unemployment.

Far more Americans are worried that inflation will go higher than are worried about unemployment going higher over the next 6 months.

That brings new unemployment claims, a proxy for layoffs, over the past six weeks to around 30 million.

A majority of Americans want all immigration to the United States halted in the midst of the Chinese coronavirus crisis, a new poll reveals. 

Gov. Ned Lamont (D) made a point Monday of asserting states such as Georgia and Oklahoma are opening up businesses “prematurely” and that Connecticut residents would have to get accustomed to social distancing as part of a “new normal.”

A Connecticut state employee union official rejected Republicans’ call to delay workers’ raises even as the state has 21.5% unemployed.

Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX) says President Donald Trump should expand his immigration executive order to suspend the H-1B visa and Optional Practical Training (OPT) programs that bring thousands of white-collar foreign workers to the United States every year to take high-paying American jobs.

Here’s how Donald Trump can get re-elected even if unemployment is higher than it has been since the Great Depression.

President Donald Trump blamed Democrats on Monday for delayed state unemployment benefits, noting he preferred to send Americans the money directly.