Jobless Numbers Are ‘Eye-Watering’ but Understate the Crisis
States are frantically trying to catch up. California, which has processed 2.7 million claims over the last four weeks, opened a second call center on Monday. New York, which has deployed 3,100 people to answer the telephone, said this week that it had reduced the backlog that accumulated by April 8 to 4,305 from 275,000.
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/business/economy/unemployment-claims-coronavirus.html