Showing posts with label US unemployment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label US unemployment. Show all posts

Sunday, May 24, 2020

Middle-class Americans Queue at Food Banks as US Unemployment Hits 38 million – BBC News


In the United States another 2.4 million people have filed for unemployment benefits in the past week.

More than 38 million Americans have lost their jobs since the coronavirus pandemic struck in March.

Previously affluent middle-class Americans are now queuing for handouts at food banks, as America experiences the worst downturn since the 1930s and the Great Depression.

Huw Edwards presents BBC News at Ten reporting from North America Correspondent Nick Bryant in New York.