The Soaring Unemployment Rate Posted on 5/7/2020 at 01:19:40 by Bill Crawford, (14)
According to the below-linked article, the U.S. unemployment rate has soared to beyond 20%, and now stands at only about 4% lower than the highest rate ever experienced during the Great Depression--and at about twice the rate experienced during the Great Recession. (See below: https://www.thebalance.com/unemployment-rate-by-year-3305506).
Hopefully, when the virus vaccine is developed over the next several months, most folks will get back to work.