More than 533,000 Californians filed for unemployment benefits last week, according to today’s U.S. Department of Labor report, bringing the total number of unemployment claims statewide since shelter-in-place began to over 3.3 million.
Nationally, jobless claims filed over the past five weeks now total over 26 million. That's more than all the jobs added in the past 10 years since the Great Recession, NPR reported.
Still, the pace of job losses is slowing: Last week was the third consecutive week of declines both in California and nationally.
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